{"id":2277,"date":"2025-03-03T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:22:44","slug":"july-10-2025-dr-thomas-fielding-st-john-the-evangelist-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"July 10, 2025 – Dr. Thomas Fielding, St. John the Evangelist Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Singing with Understanding:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A Guide to the Church’s Instruction on Sacred Music
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Dr. Thomas Fielding<\/b><\/h3>\n

Music Director, Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist<\/b><\/p>\n

Organist and composer Thomas Fielding, DMus. (b. 1975) is director of music for the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Cleveland OH and is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs\u2019 School of Music where his principal 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\u2019s Cathedral in London. His scholarly work has been featured in The American Organist magazine. 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.<\/p>\n

As an active and commissioned composer, Dr. Fielding\u2019s works appear in the catalogues of many publishers. 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. His compositions have also been broadcast on National Public Radio on both Weekend Edition and Pipedreams. His works appear in the catalogs of Choristers\u2019 Guild, E. C. Schirmer, GIA and Selah. Additionally, Paraclete Press has released three works of his so far, with several more in their publication queue. The first commercial recording of his prize-winning piece \u201cBehold the Dark and Bitter Night\u201d has been released on the Gothic label.<\/p>\n

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WHEN<\/strong>
\nThursday, July 10, 2025
\n(This presentation will take place on the second Thursday due to the July 4th Holiday.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Buffet Opens at 11:30 a.m.;  we invite you to arrive any time after 11:00 a.m. for mingling & fellowship!<\/em>
\nProgram Concludes at 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

WHERE<\/strong>
\nBorromeo\/Saint Mary Seminary
\n28700 Euclid Avenue (map<\/a>)
\nWickliffe, Ohio 44092<\/p>\n

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