Assistant Organist

James Eaton

James Eaton is Assistant Organist at Romsey Abbey, having previously held appointments at a number of cathedrals. He was organ scholar at Rochester Cathedral for two years before being invited to spend a third year there acting as Assistant Director of Music. Subsequent appointments included posts as Sub-organist and Director of the Girls' Choir at Leeds Parish Church (under Dr Simon Lindley) and Assistant Organist at Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral.

James left cathedral music in 2005 to pursue a full-time career in teaching. After completing his PGCE, he was appointed music teacher at The Romsey School, where he taught many of the abbey choristers and began singing bass in the abbey choir shortly thereafter. After only 4 terms at the school, he was appointed Head of Music at The Petersfield School, a state school with a specialism in the performing arts.

James has toured extensively as an accompanist and soloist. He has been broadcast on BBC radio and television, and in 2002 gave the world premiere of a work by the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. James was appointed Assistant Organist at Romsey Abbey in October 2008, which he combines with his 'day-job' in Petersfield.

James' predecessors are David Coram and Timothy Rogerson.