Thomas Fielding

Welcome to the webpage of Tom Fielding! I am glad that you have chosen to find out more about my work as an organist and composer and it is a delight to be able to share my work with you! If you have any questions about any of the contents of these pages, please feel free to contact me using that section of this webpage. I am always happy to discuss the possibilities of recitals and commissions with you in addition to the availability of my works for performance in church and concert hall.

It is sad to note the death of distinguished Roman Catholic composer and church musician Richard Proulx. Proulx was a long-time director of music at Holy Name Cathedral in my beloved city of Chicago. Proulx guided the Church through a particularly bad artistic period in Her history and paved the way for the long-awaited neo-Catholic movement that is now well underway. Requiescat in pace.

I am happy to have been invited to play several recitals this coming spring and summer on very diverse instruments. On Wednesday, 14 April, 2010, I will perform on the large Kleuker organ found at the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC. Next I will accompany the Grand Prarie Singers, James Kallembach, director, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Homewood, IL followed by a Tuesday afternoon "Tea and Pipes" concert on the 132-rank recently restored 1928 E.M. Skinner organ found in the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.

This summer will also bring me the opportunity to make two "roadies" and take in the freshness of the North Carolina warmth. On Sunday, 4 July, 2010, I will play a recital on the Charlotte Summer Organ Series at St. John's Episcopal Church, Charlotte, on the splendid 41-rank Brunzema tracker organ housed there. Then on Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 I will play a program of period gems on the 1800 Tannenburg organ housed in the Auditorium at the Old Salem Visitor's Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

On 17 April 2010 the Flower Mound High School Men's Chorus premiered my setting of the English folk-song "I'm Seventeen Come Sunday." A recording of the choir singing this piece can now be found on my recordings page.

I am also in the process of updating my solo organ recital performances on my recordings page as well with newer archival recordings in addition to all new recordings of my upcoming performances. I have recently added highlights from my solo recitals at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and at Coventry Cathedral and look forward to posting new pieces as the year progresses.

There is also a lot of great, new information on this webpage! I have added PDF samples of I’m Seventeen Come Sunday and of two of the hymn setting composed for St. Thomas Aquinas Church to the scores page. There is also a new link to the live recording of the premiere of Hail, Holy Queen for the crowd of 23,000 attending the International Marian Congress this past August. This link can be found under the recordings tab. And finally, I have to include yet more pictures of my beloved Roxy. These can be found, as you might guess, under the Roxy tab of this page.

Again, please feel free to email me with your questions or comments. Cheers!