Easton worked in
music publishing before moving to
Melbourne, Australia in 1982, where in 1986 he became a freelance composer. His activities included arranging, performing (in a piano duo with Len Vorster) and writing and broadcasting on music. With Vorster and the English composer
Michael Hurd he co-founded the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival in 1990. His other works include three symphonies, nine operas – including several children's operas, such as ''The Emperor's New Clothes
(1993), and The Selfish Giant
(1995) – and a successful musical, Dorothy Parker Says'' (1993).
A Voice Not Stilled, a concerto for piano and orchestra on a fragment of music recovered from a victim of the holocaust, was premiered in July 2000. He scored the short comedy film
The Moment of Accepting Life, shown at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival. ==Death and legacy==