Fred J. Cooper Organ Book: Five Compositions for Organ Solo. E. C. Schirmer Music Company (a division of ECS Publishing Group), 2017, No. 8544, $22. Available from: morningstarmusic.com. Philadelphia Flourish, by Jeffrey Brillhart; Fanfare on GELOBT SEI GOTT, by Matthew Glandorf; Organum, by Kathleen Scheide; Kokopelli: Trickster God, by David Schelat; and Reflection, by Kile Smith.

In the preface to this collection, David Furniss, who was then dean of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), outlines the evolution of the project in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This instrument is a 2006 installation by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd., the firm’s Opus 76, and reigns as the largest mechanical-action concert hall organ in the United States. To commemorate the anniversary, five Philadelphia-area composers were given a “general guideline for the style of the piece they were to write,” music for diverse occasions and settings. The premier performances of these new compositions took place at the Kimmel Center Organ Day on June 10, 2017, and were presented by organists Parker Kitterman, David Furniss, Clara Gerdes, Edward Landin, and Daryl Robinson…

…Kathleen Scheide’s Organum is an accessible and restrained setting in which the composer “explores parallelism and triple meter, traits of medieval polyphony, in a contemporary, freely composed idiom.” Scheide suggests that a variety of registrations is acceptable as long as celestes and tremulants are avoided. A convincing and hypnotic effect is created by intervals of open fourths and fifths, along with judicious use of dissonances. This piece, along with Smith’s reflection, can be convincingly performed on smaller church instruments and is appropriate for liturgical use…

— THE DIAPASON ■ JUNE 2020 ■ 21

"The performances by Czech flutist Zofie Vokalkova and American organist Kathleen Scheide are impeccable, and the sound is luscious."
-- The American Record Guide

"Kathleen Scheide performs with clarity, precision and sensitivity."
-- The American Organist

"Then Kathleen Scheide gave us something to remember forever... She looks like Alice in Wonderland, but she plays like the prophet Cassandra."

-- San Diego Reader

"It is a recording to lift the spirits, and nobody could possibly feel sad while listening to it. I thoroughly recommend it."
-- The Diapason

"...expressiveness, lilt, and good taste -- stupendously exciting... There were no mysteries about Kathleen Scheide's talents, and none about the superlative quality of this concert."

-- San Diego Reader

"...exciting, musical, precise and technically skillful - a fine combination of artist, instrument and composer."
-- Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music

"... 100% pleasing - rhythmic, original, colorful in registration, and at times exciting and quite emotional..."

--American Record Guide

"Kathleen Scheide is an important artist."
--Hudson Star-Observer

Some Past Performances

2021-2022

September 12, 2021 Bryn Athyn Cathedral, organ

March 8, 2022 Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Chapel, organ

March 19 Capital Philharmonic Orchestra, piano & harpsichord

May 24 Philadelphia AGO at OHS Stoneleigh, organ

June 13 Highland Park Recorder Society, New Jersey, harpsichord continuo

Performances Kathleen Scheide

2018 -2019

July 8, 2018 Voix seraphique, Laurel Hill Mansion, Philadelphia
July 8-13 Pipe Organ Encounter, Girard College, Philadelphia
Aug 23 New Jersey Capital Philharmonic, harpsichord concerto
Sept 9 Southampton CMS, harpsichord concerto
Oct 5 Philadelphia AGO Sowerby Celebration, Christ Church, organ
Oct 27 Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony benefit, harpsichord
Nov 2 Eben Labyrinth with Timothy Urban, Christ Church, Philadelphia
Nov 27 solo organ, AGO Phila at St. Paul's Lutheran, Ardmore
Jan 27, 2019 Chamber Music at Bournelyf, organ concerti
February 9 New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Gala
March 3 Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra
March 9 New Jersey Capital Philharmonic, harpsichord
May 5 New Jersey Capital Philharmonic, organ
May 18 West Chester Organ Competition, judge
June 15 Kimmel Center Organ Day with Barbara Prugh, trumpet and Michael Diorio, organ

2023-2024v

2020-2021

October 3, 2023 Philadelphia AGO at St. Asaph Church, Bala Cynwyd, organ

October 20 Musica Organi, Knoxville, TN, organ

November 5 Le Meslanges des Plaisirs for Capital Philharmonic Orchestra at St. Michael's Church, Trenton, fortepiano

December 16 Bucks Co. Gilberts & Sullivan Society's Messiah, harpsichord

March 3, 2024 Westminster Community Orchestra and Guitars of Westminster with harpsichord, commission/premiere

March 16 New Jersey Capital Philharmonic, Trenton War Memorial, celeste

American Guild of Organists Region IX Conventions
American Harp Society, NOLA

American Musical Instrument Society Conference, Claremont Colleges

Anahuac College, Guadalajara, Mexico
Atlanta Pro-Mozart Society
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, NJ
Bohemian Hall, NYC

Calgary Organ Society

Capella Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia

Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Salt Lake City, UT
Cathedral Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Nassau, Bahamas
Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice
College Music Society meetings, Vienna, Austria and Arkansas, USA
Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA

First Congregational Church, Los Angeles
Harding University, Searcy, AR
Harvard University, Busch and Fogg Museums
Holy Rosary Cathedral, Regina, Canada
Hong Kong Cultural Center

Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs, AR

Klementinum (Hall of Mirrors), Prague, CZ

Lobkowitz Palace, Prague, CZ

Locktown Stone Church, NJ
Lyon College, Batesville, AR
Mallery Series, Rutgers University, NJ

Martkirche, Wiesbaden, Germany

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Midwestern Early Keyboard Society Meetings at Moravian U, Notre Dame,U
Music Appreciation Society Guadalajara, Mexico

National Association of Pastoral Musicians Conferences, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh

National Christian Church, Washington D. C.

Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA

Occidental College

Olomouc Chamber Music Festival

Organ Historical Society Conventions, Detroit, Philadelphia, North Carolina

Palomar Mountain Early Music Workshop, CA

Philadelphia Cathedral
Princeton University Chapel

Round Lake Auditorium, Round Lake, New York

San Anselmo Organ Festival

San Diego Early Music Society

San Diego Harpsichord Society
St. George Basilika, Prague, for CZ TV

St. Louis Bach Society
St. Peter's Citicorp, NYC

Saskatoon Chapter, RCCO at St. John's Cathedral

Stetson University

University of Redlands Organ Festival
Vienna Conservatory and Kunsthistorischen Museums

Sept 28, 2019 Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Souderton
Oct 20 Westminster Community Orchestra premieres Perpetuum Mobile and Echo
Nov 24 Southampton Chamber Music Society, organ plus
Nov 29 solo harpsichord, 1867 Sanctuary, Ewing, NJ
March 14, 2020 New Jersey Capital Philharmonic, harpsichord continuo
April 21 Philadelphia AGO at Stoneleigh, OHS Headquarters, solo organ
May 9 Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra

2019-2020

September 2020, Capital Philharmonic recording, harpsichord

October Southampton Chamber Music Society recordings, harpsichord

Oct 10 Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra livestream

Nov 7 Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony livestream
February 6, 2021 SPSO livestream
March 30, Philadelphia AGO at St. David's, Radnor

September 18, 2022 Philadelphia AGO at Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, harpsichord
October 23 Westminster Community Orchestra and Guitars of Westminster premiere
November 19 The Choristers, Trinity Lutheran, Landsdale, PA, organ
December 4 Lafayette College Chamber Orchestra, Easton, PA, harpsichord

Dec 13 Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, harpsichord
Dec 20 Philadelphia AGO at Ardmore Presbyterian Church, organ

March 9, 2023 Princeton University Chapel, organ
May 30, Philadelphia AGO at Stoneleigh, organ

June 27, Sisters of Mercy Convent, Merion, PA, with James Day, violin

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2024-2025

2023-2024

October 19, 2024 Capital Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey, piano
October 20 Philadelphia AGO at Christ Church, organ 4-hand with Parker Kitterman & Clair Rozier
November 26 Philadelphia AGO at St. John's Church, Lansdale

December 31 Capital Philharmonic, piano

January 10, 2025 Trinity Copley Square, Boston, organ
January 25 Maxine Thevenot plays premiere for AGO January Jumpstart

April 15 Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, organ

2022-2023