Sam Fleming is known throughout the United States and parts of South America as a conductor, composer, organist, and music educator. He has held various conducting positions with community, church, and school ensembles. He is experienced as a conductor equally on the concert stage, in worship, and in musical theatre. As an organist, Fleming has performed throughout the United States as a soloist and with several choral ensembles and chamber groups. Fleming’s compositions have been commissioned and premiered by various ensembles including Brigham Young University-Idaho, Illinois State University, the Fountain of the Sun Community Chorus and the Salonnieres Chamber Ensemble of Phoenix, Arizona. His works are published through his own publishing company, SFM Publishing.

Fleming currently serves as Director of Music and Organist at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Kansas City, Missouri and is on the faculty of Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. Prior to his appointment at Good Shepherd, he served as Director of Worship and Arts/Organist at First United Methodist Church in Florence, Alabama and as an adjunct professor in the keyboard and choral areas at the University of North Alabama. Additionally Fleming maintains a private studio of organ, piano, conducting, composition, and voice students.

Fleming graduated with a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Illinois State University and a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance and Music Composition from Brigham Young University-Idaho. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Kansas in Choral Conducting and Church Music. Sam is a member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. He currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his family.

Composer, organist, conductor and educator Sam Fleming talks about his commission, Come Unto Him for Salonnières chamber trio. This was Salonnières' first co...

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