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Experience and
expertise are the keystones of our success at Scott R. Riedel & Associates.
Our team of degreed professionals have experience teaching at colleges and universities and regularly participate in speaking engagements, conferences and lectures.
Our
well-regarded national experts are considered the
best in the fields of acoustics and sound, all specialties
related to the organ, liturgical music, theater design and
other areas. 
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Scott R. Riedel & Associates,
Ltd. began as a sole proprietorship by Mr. Riedel in the
late 1970’s. Early customers included Lutheran and
Catholic churches in Wisconsin desiring organ selection and purchase consultation.
Mr. Riedel also offered room acoustic consultation for worship
spaces primarily in Wisconsin and northern Illinois. The
series of educational articles on worship acoustic topics
that Mr. Riedel wrote for The Diapason magazine
soon brought national recognition, bringing clients from
east to west coasts. The company grew over time; sound system
design and organ tuning were added to the services offered,
and the staff was expanded to include additional acousticians,
system designers, organ technicians, as well as office management
and architectural associates. The organization was
incorporated in the State of Wisconsin during the 1990’s.
Today the original church organ and sacred worship space
acoustical consultations are still offered, along with sound
and video system design, a wide scope of organ maintenance,
as well as residential, commercial, industrial, institutional
and educational consultation on all matters related to sound
quality, noise control, systems and sound testing.
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Scott R. Riedel
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
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David L. Beyer
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.
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Megan Robertson
Lead Architectural Acoustician
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. |
Tmothy Stoltz
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.
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Samuel Skogstad
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.
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