Concert to feature acclaimed organist

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Pipe organist Douglas Cleveland will perform at Stambaugh Auditorium at 4 p.m. Sunday.

Cleveland is the John Delo Faculty Fellow in Organ at the University of Washington School of Music and is the director of music at Plymouth Church in Seattle.

His performance will include Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552, by J.S. Bach; “The Lone Wild Bird” by George Baker; Four Concert Etudes by David Briggs; and Sonata No. 1, Op. 42 by Alexandre Guilmant.

Raised in Washington state, Cleveland has studied at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University and Oxford University. He gained international fame in 1994 when he won first prize in the American Guild of Organists (AGO) National Young Artists Competition in Dallas.

He has performed in 49 states, as well as at Westminster Abbey, the Berlin Cathedral, Stockholm Cathedral, Moscow Conservatory, Notre Dame Cathedral, St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Melbourne, Australia) and the Cathedral of Lausanne (Switzerland).

Cleveland has performed with many American symphony orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Northwestern University Symphony, and the National Symphony at the Washington National Cathedral.

His performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and the BBC.

Tickets for this performance are on sale at the Stambaugh box office at 1000 Fifth Ave.; online at stambaughauditorium.com; and by phone at 330-259-0555.