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 at St. James Catholic Church in Liberty, Missouri, where he oversees a large music program with seven ensembles. Previously, he served on the faculties of Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, and the University of North Alabama, where he taught courses in Conducting, Keyboard, and American Popular Music as well as churches in Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, and Missouri. In addition to his role at St. James, he maintains an active performing schedule and a private studio of organ, piano, conducting, composition, and voice students.

Fleming holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kansas in Church Music (Choral Conducting and Organ), a Master of Music degree from Illinois State University in Choral Conducting, and a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from Brigham Young University-Idaho in Organ and Music Composition. 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.