On Sunday, May 5, organist Dr. Douglas Cleveland will perform on the Taylor and Boody tracker-action sanctuary organ at the Coshocton Presbyterian Church. The organ recital begins at 3 p.m. and is free.
This will be Cleveland’s fifth visit to the Presbyterian Church. He also played there in 1996, 1997, 2007, 2014, and now in 2024.
Cleveland is one of America’s finest young organists and has performed in all 50 states. He has played with symphony orchestras in Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and with the National Symphony at the Washington National Cathedral for an audience of 3,000.
Cleveland has gained international acclaim having performed in prestigious venues in England, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Iceland, Switzerland, Canada, Russia, and China. His international reputation gained prominence when he won first prize in the 1994 American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Dallas.
Washington is his native state, but Cleveland has studied at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Oxford School of Theology. He has performed in International Organ Festivals, and with early music ensembles here and abroad. His performances have been heard on National Public Radio, the BBC, and the Northwest radio program “The Organ Loft.” The Gothic label has recorded six CDs of his work, the latest being “Douglas Cleveland Plays Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.”
Cleveland has performed at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, National Pastoral Musicians and the American Institute of Organ Builders. He has served on the faculties of St. Olaf College and Northwestern University where he received the Searle Award for Teaching Excellence. Currently, he serves on the organ faculty at the University of Washington School of Music and is the director of music at St. Thomas Medina Episcopal Church and Musician in Residence at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, Washington.
All are welcome to attend the Dr. Douglas Cleveland Organ Concert on May 5 at 3 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, 142 North Fourth Street, Coshocton, Ohio. Admission and parking are free, and the church is handicapped accessible from the church’s parking lot off Fourth Street. For more information, contact the Presbyterian Church at (740) 622-0486.
