James Woodman was born in 1957 in Portland, Maine, and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy (Classical Diploma), Princeton University (A.B., Composition), and New England Conservatory (M.M., Organ Performance). He was appointed the first Composer-in-Residence at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, and recently retired after 27 years of service as Monastery Organist for the Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
James Woodman's organ and choral works are published by E. C. Schirmer, Theodore Presser, Boosey & Hawkes, ThorpeAlte Musik Verlag, and Walker & Woodman Editions. His compositions have been widely programmed, including performances at Magdalen College (Oxford), Église de la Sainte-Trinité (Paris), Festival Internationale de l’Orgue Ancien (Sion, Switzerland), Minato Mirae Concert Hall (Yokohama), Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche (Berlin), Langholtskirkja (Reykjavik), St. Mary’s Cathedral (San Francisco), United States Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs), St. Thomas Episcopal Church (New York), Washington National Cathedral, as well as on the nationally syndicated radio broadcast “Pipe Dreams,” and on recordings by Mark Brombaugh, Nancy Granert, Christa Rakich, Erik Simmons, Peter Sykes, Victoria Wagner, the Boston Boy Choir, the Harvard University Choir, and the Schola of the Society of St. John the Evangelist.