Hailing from Brisbane, Dr Philip Eames 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.

 

Philip was appointed Principal Conductor of the Macquarie Singers in 2023. In 2025, he additionally took up the reigns as Musical Director of Coro Innominata and has been associated with River City Voices since 2019, where he served as an inaugural assistant conductor under the guidance of Dr. Sarah Penicka-Smith.

 

He is frequently engaged as a conductor of operatic productions, with credits including Menotti’s The Medium, Weill's Seven Deadly Sins/Mahagonny Songspeil and Salieri's Prima la musica, e poi le parole. He is also an active composer, with performances and commissions from some of Australia’s most exciting chamber ensembles and choirs.