The 2023 Old West Organ Society Summer Series concludes with a performance by Rhonda Sider Edgington. Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted in support of the Society.
Rhonda Sider Edgington is often commended for her innovative programming, colorful use of registrations, and exciting playing. Seven years spent studying, working and performing in Bremen, Germany (originally with a Fulbright scholarship), led to her passion for the repertoire and organs of 17th century Germany, as she worked closely with Prof. Harald Vogel.
Edgington has played recitals at venues such as St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh, West Point Cadet Chapel in NY, and Arizona State University, as well as on important historic instruments in Germany. She has performed at numerous national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society and has been heard on the radio program Pipedreams. Rhonda co-lead an educational tour for the European chapter of the AGO to visit organs of Northern Germany, and was AGO Dean of the Holland (MI) chapter for 8 years.
She has envisioned and realized programs as creative as Music of Japan: for organ, marimba, and Taiko drums, with her duo Thunder & Wind (Carolyn Koebel, percussion); Jazz and the Organ, with Hammond B3 master Tony Monaco; programs of music by all women for organ and trumpet with Great Lakes Duo (Dr. Brian Reichenbach, trumpet), and collaborations with many unique duos (including tuba, bassoon, clarinet, and french horn).
Edgington is the Organist and Music Director at Hope Church, and teaches organ at Calvin University, while traveling to perform regularly around the US and in Europe. She also enjoys riding her bike, visiting farmer’s markets, and writing a monthly column in the Holland Sentinel, her local newspaper.
You can find her pipe organ photos on Instagram at i_luv_schnitgers, and her writings on her website rhonda.edgington.info under Musings.