Dr David D. Eaton's active performance career has taken him throughout the United States, the Netherlands and Germany. As an artist on the cutting edge of historically-informed performance practice of repertoire from all periods, Dr. 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, he has held various appointments in Wisconsin, Iowa, South Carolina, New York, and Boston for the past 22 years. Most recently, 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 in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Dr. Eaton was recently named Assistant Professor of Organ in the School of Music at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, an appointment that will begin in the fall of 2000.
At the University of Iowa, he taught organ, keyboard harmony and for the 1995-96 academic year was appointed Graduate Instructor to teach undergraduate theory. While on the faculty of Lutheran Music Program from 1993 to 1997, Eaton taught organ, music history, theory and directed the Collegium Musicum. During the 1996-97 academic year Eaton held 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. He is also the innovator of the harpsichord pedal push-up system built by harpsichord builder Philip Tyre of Dunedin, Florida. While in Boston during the 1997-98 academic year, he held an appointment within the performance faculty as Lecturer in Music at the University of Massachusetts at Boston where he taught organ.
Eaton was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance and Pedagogy with a Theory Pedagogy Minor from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; the Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Bachelor of Arts Degree from Concordia College-New York, Bronxville, New York. During his residency at the University of Iowa, he was a recipient of the Fredrick T. Rahn, Jr. Memorial Scholarship for excellence in academic achievement. Upon graduation he was elected a member of the Society of Pi Kappa Lambda by the Alpha Phi Chapter. His organ teachers include Richard Heschke, William Porter, Yuko Hayashi, Delores Bruch and Harold Vogel.
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