"Elegant chamber
music at its best."
(The American Organist)
"a beautiful luminosity"
(Music and Vision)
Due Solisti
Flute & organ
Zofie Vokalkova, flute &
Kathleen Scheide, organ
Available
November 2010 and
March 20-April 3, 2011
The flute and organ duo Due Solisti brings together the considerable talents of Zofie Vokálková, flutist with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic and a faculty member at the Prague Conservatory, and Kathleen Scheide, organist of All Hallows Church, Wyncote PA, and a member of the harpsichord faculty at Westminster Choir College in Princeton NJ.
Miss Vokálková is herself a graduate of the Prague Conservatory where she earned first prize honors. She has studied with Frantisek Malotin, Christian Lardé, Meinhardt Niedermayer, and James Galway. She has won prizes at a number of international performance competitions, has been an orchestral soloist in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and has been featured in numerous radio broadcasts and compact disc recordings.
Dr. Scheide holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and the University of Southern California, where her teachers have included John Gibbons and Cherry Rhodes. She has performed as organist and harpsichordist extensively in the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Far East and the Caribbean. She is a founding member of the San Diego Harpsichord Society and the Western Early Keyboard Society and a published composer with several imprint catalogues and a large CD discography.