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Music at Pusey House

An overview.

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2025/2026

Choral Scholarships

We have vacancies for all voice parts this year.

Please see more info here:



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Music is central to life at Pusey House, be it congregational singing, choral music or concerts. Since October 2024, we have enjoyed a Tuesday lunchtime recital series and we are an established venue for several external groups in Oxford. More details about concerts can be found on our seperate concerts page here, including how to book. You can read more about our choirs below.

THe Chapel Choir

The Chapel Choir sings at the 11 o’clock Sunday High Mass and a number of other solemnities across the year. Most of the choir’s duties fall within the University terms, with the main out-of-term commitments falling within Holy Week. Occasionally, the choir is asked to sing for Choral Evensongs. Recently this has been as part of the Oxford Literary Festival, the House’s own Friends’ Festival and to mark the start of the St Cross College term. Such events usually occur a few times across the year.  The choir is sometimes engaged for services for the wider community such as weddings and funerals.​​

The choir is formed of eight choral scholars (SSAATTBB), drawn largely from the University’s top chapel choirs.  The choir’s repertoire is generally a mixture of plainsong, Renaissance polyphony, and Romantic and Modern English choral music.  Present and past music lists can be found through the link below.  In the past the choir of the House has recorded several CDs, and toured Europe. 

Over the years, the House has commissioned and premiered works by eminent composers such as Alexander Campkin and Sydney Watson.​

We welcome inquiries throughout the year for the membership of either choir. Please contact the Master of Music, Edward Gaut, for more information:

music@puseyhouse.org.uk

THe Pusey Singers

The Chapel Choir are ably supported in leading the House's musical offereing by the Pusey Singers, our voluntary choir. The Pusey Singers sing for all services outside of University Term, as well as for special occasions in term time, such as for Sung Masses on Feast Days and more recently, for our monthly services of Choral Benediction following Evensong on a Friday.

Membership is open to all, subject to a trial service or informal audition. If you are interested, please contact the Master of Music, or fill in this form:

Sign-up using the Google Form here

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Music lists

Past lists

Advent and Christmas 2025

Michaelmas 2025

Trinity 2025

Holy Week and Easter 2025

Hilary 2025

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House
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Edward

Gaut

Master of Music

Edward is the Master of Music at Pusey House, where he enjoys the variety of the musical offering, from working with the octet of choral scholars each week at High Mass on a Sunday, to directing the voluntary choir, cantoring for mid-week services and organising the occasional larger event, such as an orchestral High Mass with the Oxford Baroque Players, featuring Haydn’s Paukenmesse. In addition, Edward is organist to Campion Hall, Oxford, a personal private hall of the University that is home to an academic community of Jesuits, where he plays for the weekly Hall Mass. He studies organ with Christian Wilson. Edward read Music at Keble College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, accompanying the pattern of weekly college services. In his time at the college, he also played for a radio broadcast and toured to Scandinavia and participated in the yearly Keble Early Music Festival. A keen singer, he is a part of the early music ensemble, Antiquum Documentum, which puts on concerts and liturgical reconstructions. The most recent of these was a High Mass and Procession for the Presentation of the Lord according to the use of Salisbury (Sarum), in St Bartholomew the Great, London. This is part of a series of such services, working through English liturgies from the high Middle Ages to the Civil War; the next one will take place in the summer. Upcoming recital venues include Magdalen College, Oxford; Lincoln College, Oxford and Queens’ College, Cambridge.
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Recordings

Short recordings of the choir from services

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