Biography
Doug Cleveland was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in Olympia. He received
his bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Russell
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Saunders, a master’s degree from Indiana University studying with Larry Smith and Marilyn
Keiser, and a doctorate from the Graduate Theological Foundation, where he completed his
course work and final doctoral project at the University of Oxford School of Theology. He has
been on the music faculties of St. Olaf College, Northwestern University, and the University of
Washington. For twelve years he served as Director of Music at Plymouth Church in Seattle and
is currently director of music at St. Thomas Medina Episcopal Church and Musician in
Residence at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle.
Doug won first prize in the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists
Competition in Dallas. Since then, he has performed in all fifty of the United States and in
venues throughout Europe and Asia. His performances with American symphony orchestras
have included the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony and
the National Symphony in Washington, DC. In Seattle, he has performed several times on the
Seattle Symphony Organ Series at Benaroya Hall. He has performed with Seattle Pro Musica,
Choral Arts Northwest, the Seattle Men’s Chorus, and Northwest Chamber Chorus. He has
recorded six CDs on the Gothic label, which have received critical acclaim — his most recent
being “Douglas Cleveland Plays Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.” He has
performed at the AGO National Conventions of Dallas, Denver, and Kansas City.
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