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David Eaton
Lecturer, Organ(210)828-6425
eaton@StLukes-SA.netDavid D. Eaton's active performance, church music and teaching career have taken him throughout the United States, the Bahamas, the Netherlands, and Germany. As an artist who performs repertoire from all periods, Eaton has been enthusiastically received as performer, teacher, scholar, and church musician.
His appearances at The Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, The Concordia Organ Series at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York, The Old West Organ Society Summer Evening Concerts at Old West Church in Boston, and St. Thomas Church in New York City have all been met with critical acclaim.
As a church musician, for the past twenty-three years he has held appointments in Wisconsin, Iowa, South Carolina, New York, and Boston. Eaton served as Director of Music at Church of St. John the Evangelist on Beacon Hill in Boston, and from 1998 to 2000, he served as Director of Music at historic St. Helena's Episcopal Church (founded 1712) in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Eaton has been the recipient of numerous academic and performance awards including the Elizabeth Margaret Meyer Award for Excellence in Music at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York. He was a finalist in the Arthur Poister Scholarship National Organ Playing Competition in 1992; an E. Power Biggs Fellow at the Organ Historical Society's National Convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan; a Recipient of Fredrick Rahn Scholarship for excellence in academic achievement at the University of Iowa; and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.
Eaton has held numerous academic appointments. He was awarded a Graduate Instructor faculty position at the University of Iowa to teach undergraduate theory for the 1995-96 academic year. During the 1996-97 academic year, Eaton served a one-year appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music (Organ) and College Organist at Bethany College where he taught organ, harpsichord, piano, church music and theory. In 1997 and 1998, he held an appointment within the performance faculty as Lecturer in Music at the University of Massachusetts at Boston where he taught organ. He also served as Assistant Professor of Organ and University Organist at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, where he taught organ, piano, and theory. During the summers of 1992 through 1997 and again in 2001 and 2002, he served on the faculty of The Lutheran Summer Music Academy & Festival teaching organ, music history, theory and directing the Collegium Musicum, and then from 2001 to 2003 he served as Executive Director of The Lutheran Summer Music Academy & Festival. In the fall of 2004 Dr. Eaton was named Lecturer in Organ at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Eaton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia College-New York, Bronxville, New York; a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. During his doctoral program at the University of Iowa, he taught organ, keyboard harmony, and completed the Theory Pedagogy Minor. Eaton also attended the North German Organ Academy in the summer of 1991. His organ teachers include Richard Heschke, William Porter, Yuko Hayashi, Delores Bruch and Harold Vogel.
In spring of 2004, Eaton accepted the appointment at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Alamo Heights, San Antonio where he serves as Director of Music, Organist & Choirmaster.
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