Nicholas Fields, Baritone

Nick has been an active performer in the Syracuse, NY area for almost a decade.  He has a host of musical theatre credits, including the role of Tateh in Ragtime and Toad in The Wind in the Willows.  In years past, he was an active recitalist with the Society for New Music, premiering many works by up-and-coming composers.  Most recently, he can be heard singing jazz/rock/pop with a variety of ensembles and as a professional chorister.

 As a trumpet player, he has won two Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMYs) with Second Line Syracuse and the Jess Novak Band while playing in a host of other groups.  As a sideman, he has performed on 7 albums in the last two years, with more to come.  His work can be heard at festivals all around New York State, including the M&T Jazz Festival in both of the past two years.  He frequently serves as a horn section leader in many of these festivals, transcribing and arranging the works of notable artists such as James Brown and Bob Marley.  Additionally, he has a composition portfolio that includes over 80 works of chamber music, jazz and music spanning and encompassing a dozen other genres. 

Nick credits the belief and time he was granted by area professionals for his swift convalescence into top-call trumpet player.  As such, education is very dear to him.  Currently, he spreads his philosophies of inculcating belief in the self and the clarity of an empowered imagination to trumpet/piano/musicianship students on a private level and at the Holy Cross School.  He looks forward to sharing the fruit of his labors with the St. David’s Episcopal community, and is very thankful that you have taken him and his father Richard Fields aboard with such warmth and grace.

He looks forward to spreading Light through the music ministry here at St. David’s for years to come.