Concert organist Sean Fleming returns to perform at the Boothbay Harbor Congregational Church on Sunday, July 31 at 4 p.m. The concert is free although donations will be accepted at the door toward support of the American Hospital in Gazientep, Turkey. This hospital was begun by members of the Shepard family while serving as missionaries. Dr. Barclay Shepard continues to serve on the hospital's board and acquires materials, supplies, and financial donations. The hospital is currently providing services to many refugees from Syria.

Fleming performs regularly with the Bowdoin Chorus, Coastal Chorale, Down East Singers, Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires, Lincoln Festival Chorus, Maine Friends of Music, St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, Sheepscot Valley Chorus, and Tapestry Singers. He is the assistant director of Midcoast Community Chorus, and is also the music director for the Hearts Ever Young Chorus. He regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals. He has worked with Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Colby College Chorale, Maine Pro Musica, Oratorio Chorale, Renaissance Voices, University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, University of Southern Maine Chorale, University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers, and Vox Nova Chamber Choir.

He has directed or accompanied over 65 musical theater productions nationwide. Most recently he was the music director and orchestral conductor for “Fiddler on the Roof," “Godspell,” “Jekyll and Hyde,” “The Legend of Jim Cullen,” and “Sunday in the Park with George” with Heartwood Regional Theater Company, and “Shrek,” “Aida,” and “Little Shop of Horrors” at The Waldo Theater.

An organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Fleming studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past 20 years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. He was the recipient of a 2009 St. Botolph Club Foundation grant award in recognition of his achievements in music.

Fleming's 2016 concert program will include “Offertoire” in E Flat Major, CFF 36B by Franck, Organ Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.42 by Guilmant, Canzona from the “Folkloric Suite” by Langlais, Darke’s “A Meditation on Brother James’ Air,” “Concert Variations on Austria,” Op.3, composed by Maine-born composer John Knowles Paine, and the virtuosic "Rhumba" by Robert Elmore.

For more information contact the church at 207-633-4757. The church is located at 125 Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor.