James Woodman (b. 1957) is Monastery Organist Emeritus, Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and former Composer-in-Residence at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston. He is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B., Composition), and New England Conservatory (M.M., Organ Performance).

James Woodman's organ and choral works are published by E. C. Schirmer, Theodore Presser, Boosey & Hawkes, Thorpe, Alte Schule Musikverlag, and Walker & Woodman Editions. His compositions have reached a wide audience, 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.