The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul will be hosting a summer concert series. Come and enjoy the many talented performers in this sacred space. Concerts are free and open to the public. Donations to restore the Casavant Organ are gratefully accepted.

On Friday, September 11, we will be featuring Thomas Fielding.

Organist and composer Thomas Fielding, DMus. (b. 1975) is Director of Liturgy and Music for St. Augustine Cathedral, Kalamazoo, MI and is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs’ School of Music.  He 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 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 is published with GIA Publications, the Choristers’ Guild, EC Schirmer, and Boosey & Hawkes.  His works have been performed by soloists, choirs and orchestras throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Asia and have been broadcast on National Public Radio. The first commercial recording of his prize-winning piece "Behold the Dark and Bitter Night" has been released on the Gothic label.
 
In his free time, Fielding enjoys cooking, reading, classic film and television and being outdoors with his dog Roxy.  For more information, access www.thomasfielding.com.