Aaron James is the Director of Music for the Toronto Oratory of St Philip Neri, and a Sessional Lecturer in organ at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and was the 2011 winner of the RCCO National Organ Playing Competition; he now serves the College as national Chair of Examinations, and is a past president of RCCO Toronto Centre. He holds doctoral degrees in organ performance and musicology from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.