James Mooney-Dutton was educated at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Margaret Phillips, he was also a Music Scholar at Harrow School.

He has held organ scholarships at Norwich Cathedral and the Royal Parish Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. He began his musical education as a chorister at Westminster Abbey where he sang at the funeral of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

As a recitalist James has performed at St James’s Cathedral Toronto, Magdalen College Oxford, Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church in Cambridge, St Andrew’s Church Holborn, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Norwich Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, St Andrew’s Hall Norwich, Queen’s College Oxford and Tewkesbury Abbey as well as performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.