Education
Fleming served as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and later studied Music at the University of Cambridge.
Fleming served as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and later studied Music at the University of Cambridge.
He is a former student of Raymond Leppard, Herbert Howells and Malcolm Arnold. The bulk of his composition is choral. He became a music teacher and started composing his most significant works in the 1980s.
In 2000, he was commissioned by the Exeter Chamber Choir to set words by Hilaire Belloc and Heinrich Hoffmann for chorus, piano and orchestra.
Matilda, drawn from one of the Cautionary Tales for Children by Belloc, was described by the composer as "mixing in the somewhat acidic taste of Hoffmann with the misadventures of "Matilda" and "Henry" while allowing the exemplary C A Fortescue to have the final say."
A selection of his choral works was recorded on Civil Defense (Meridian CDE 84360) by the Oxford Pro Musica Singers and the Saint Cecilia Players. Besides performances in the United Kingdom, le Fleming"s music has received some international attention.
Nocturnes, Nunc dimittis, and the Magnificat are among le Fleming"s works that have been performed in concert by the Canticum Novum chamber chorus and orchestra of Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose director Kenneth Knight writes that le Fleming "has become one of the ensemble"s favorite composers.".