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Dr Philip Eames is one of Sydney's most versatile artists, being in-demand as a composer, choral conductor, pianist, lecturer and researcher. Hailing from Brisbane, Philip studied piano with Max Olding AM and Stephen Savage at the Queensland Conservatorium. He then continued his studies on scholarship at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, before completing his doctorate in 2017 at the Sydney Conservatorium focusing on the choral music of Percy Grainger. Philip is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sydney Conservatorium, working as part of the Spencer-Bennett NeuroMusic Collaborative, and serves as Classical Convenor and lecturer at the Australian Institute of Music.

As an active composer, Philip's music has frequently been commissioned and performed throughout Australia by artists including the Australian Voices, Queensland Ballet, the Black Square and Flinders Quartets, the Burgundian Consort, and the Australian National Piano Award. His choral cycle "This Great Unrain" was selected as the winner of the 2020 Willgoss Choral Composition Prize, and he was awarded first prize at the Tagore, and ASKM Composition Competitions. In 2019 he collaborated with the Black Square Quartet and the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation to create a large-scale string quartet based on the stories of Oodgeroo Noonuccal. This work "Minjeribah Dreaming" received a string of acclaimed performances during the 2019 Quandamooka Festival.

Philip was appointed Principal Conductor of the Macquarie Singers in 2023. In 2025, he also took up the reins as Musical Director of Coro Innominata, leading them in their critically acclaimed concert The VocaLiszt; an exploration into the choral music of Franz Liszt. Philip has also been engaged as assistant and guest conductor with the River City Voices since 2019, most recently in their performance of the Fauré Requiem. He is frequently engaged as a conductor of operatic productions, with credits including Menotti's The Medium, Weill's Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspeil, Salieri's Prima la musica, e poi le parole and Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor.

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Biography provided by the composer — current to June 2026