
Music at Pusey House
An overview.


2025/2026
Choral Scholarships

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:
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:


House
Musicans

Edward
Gaut
Master of Music
