SCOTT R - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Principal
• Vice President / Head Organ Technician

Mr. Beyer is the principal organ technician at Scott R. Riedel & Associates Ltd. He began his work as church musician at age 15. He holds degrees in Music Education, cum laude, from Augustana College; and in Organ Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston; his teachers include Yuko Hayashi, Donald Teeters, Robert Schunemann, Merle Pflueger and Bessie Schober. Post-grad organ studies were made with Harald Vogel, Klaas Bolt, Umberto Pineschi, Russell Saunders, and Roberta Gary. Mr. Beyer has assisted in restoring two historic European organs - an 18th century chamber organ in Pistoia, Italy; and the 1560 Epistle organ in the Cathedral of Salamanca, Spain. Both projects were under the direction of Japanese organ builder Hiroshi Tsuji. He also helped voice Tsuji's large concert organ built for Salamanca Hall in Gifu City, Japan. He studied organ history and construction with Fritz Noak and was designer/voicer for the J.F. Nordlie Company, Organ Builders, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from 1985 to 1996. He serves as Music Director at Pentecost Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Previously he was organist and lecturer at the Ecumenical Liturgy & Worship Seminar at Oxford, England. Mr. Beyer has performed worldwide and he has taught organ in Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Japan. His compositions include settings for Holy Communion, hymntunes, wedding songs, and organ chorale preludes; his review articles have appeared in publications nationwide. He is a past Dean of the American Guild of Organists, a member of the Organ Historical Society, and a member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and is currently registrar for the Milwaukee Chapter AGO.

Ms. Robertson is the primary acoustic testing, analysis, modeling, and design engineer at Scott R. Riedel & Associates, Ltd. She has degrees in Applied Physics and Architectural Acoustics from Brigham Young University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, as a Cum Laude graduate. Her research includes computational modeling of sound energy flow in coupled rooms, and code design for calculation of room acoustic metrics from impulse response data. Her additional interests include singing, dance, and playing musical instruments.

Job Titles:

• Associate Organ Consultant

Mr. Boren is a 2022 graduate of Carthage College, where he received a Bachelor of the Arts in Organ Performance, Finance, and Accounting. He serves as a regular organist for several churches in Milwaukee, including Old St. Mary Catholic Church and Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church since 2019, and St. Stanislaus Oratory since 2020. Ryan's work at Riedel & Associates entails organ design, inspection, and maintenance, as well as administrative assistance within the office.

Job Titles:

• Associate Organ Consultant

Mr. Skogstad is a 2018 graduate from the University of Wisconsin " Milwaukee where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, Voice Studies. Sam has served as Director of Music at St. Aloysius Parish, West Allis from 2014-2018; Blessed Sacrament, Milwaukee from 2019-2023, interim organist at St. Rita Parish, West Allis; and has served as substitute musician at several Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He currently serves as Director of Music and Liturgy at St. Matthias Parish, Milwaukee. Sam is also a member of the Archdiocesan Choir of Milwaukee and the Master Singers of Milwaukee, under the direction of Dr. Zachary Durlam. His work with Riedel & Associates involves the design and tonal evaluation of the organ.

Job Titles:

• President / Acoustician / Organ Consultant

Mr. Riedel is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Architecture and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. He is Organist-Choirmaster at Christ Church, Episcopal, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, and is a guest lecturer at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. He has served on many church music committees and boards, including the American Guild of Organists, The Royal School of Church Music, and The Association of Lutheran Musicians. He is a member of the British Institute of Organ Studies, and the Acoustical Society of America. Mr. Riedel's publications include a column in the GIA Quarterly Magazine as Architectural and Acoustics reviewer, the booklet "Acoustics in the Worship Space" published by Concordia Publishing House, as a series of articles in "The Diapason" magazine. He has also edited a special issue of CrossAccent, a journal published by the Association or Lutheran Church Musicians, which focused on church architecture, acoustics, and music. Mr. Riedel has presented lectures on worship space acoustics, organ design and purchase to the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, National Association of Pastoral Musicians, American Guild of Organists (various chapters and regions), Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, American Institute of Architects, and the Lectures in Church Music at Concordia University.

Job Titles:

• Architectural Designer and Draftsmen / Business Manager

Mr. Stoltz is a 2015 graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he received his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies (BSAS), graduating with honors in the major. Tim is proficient in the design of various types of architectural spaces, creating solutions for optimizing acoustics. Tim manages the production of CAD drawings, the creation of acoustic EASE models, artistic color renderings, and information processing and storage at Scott R. Riedel & Associates, LTD. Tim has experience using many different computer drafting and modeling programs including AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, and SketchUp.