Thomas Fields

The gambist and cellist Thomas Fields was born in Minneapolis, United States, where he grew up. He studied cello at the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music in New York, during which time he began to deepen his interest and experience with historical performance practice on both cello and viola da gamba.

In 2017 he moved to Germany to study a masters in viola da gamba with Prof. Hille Perl at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, after which he pursued postgraduate studies on viola da gamba with Prof. Friederike Heumann at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. He has attended master classes with Paolo Pandolfo, Vittorio Ghielmi, Jaap ter Linden, Christophe Coin, among others, and also received the China Government Scholarship as a visiting student in musicology at the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing, China. Thomas has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, St. Thomas Church (Leipzig), Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice), and the National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing).