Organist and composer Thomas Fielding, DMus. (b. 1975) is Director of Music for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and Music Coordinator for the Office of Worship, Diocese of Cleveland, OH. He is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs’ School of Music where his principle teacher was Christopher Young. Previous studies were with Martin Jean and Robert A. Hobby. Fielding has taken first prize in the national Arthur Poister (Syracuse, NY) and San Marino (CA) performance competitions, has won several national composition prizes, has been the recipient of several full-tuition scholarship awards at IU and, as an undergraduate, won several music prizes offered by his alma mater Valparaiso University. He has played recitals throughout England and the Netherlands including two appearances at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. His scholarly work has been featured in The American Organist, The Tracker and the Diapason magazines. He has been commissioned by the Minneapolis AGO chapter to present a lecture-recital on the Esquisses Byzantines of Henry Mulet and he, along with Donna Walters, is co-authoring the book-biography of the composer. He was for four years the Dean of the Central North Carolina Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
As an active and commissioned composer, Dr. Fielding’s works appear in the catalogues of Paraclete Press, E. C. Schirmer, Choristers’ Guild, GIA, Boosey and Hawkes, and Selah. His works have been performed by soloists, choirs and orchestras throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Asia in addition to the 2016 American Guild of Organists national convention in Houston, TX. He has won first prize awards from the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Dupage (IL) Symphony, VocalEssence (MN) and the American Guild of Organists. His compositions have also been broadcast on National Public Radio on both Weekend Edition and Pipedreams. The first commercial recording of his prize-winning piece “Behold the Dark and Bitter Night” has been released on the Gothic label.