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Music at Pusey House

An overview.

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2025-2026

Choral ScHolarships

We have vacancies in all voice parts for this year. Please see more details below:

Overview

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 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

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Music lists

Past lists

Michaelmas 2025

Trinity 2025

Holy Week and Easter 2025

Hilary 2025

Advent and Christmas 2024

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House
Musicans

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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.

Edward

Gaut

Master of Music

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Alexander was raised in South London and started his musical training as a chorister at Southwark Cathedral. He attended City of London School, and studied at Junior Guildhall, held a Junior Choral Scholarship at Southwark Cathedral, and the Organ Scholarship at All Saints, West Dulwich. During his gap-year, Alexander was organ scholar at St. Mary Magdalene, Richmond. Alexander studied Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, he was also a choral scholarship at Keble College. Alexander, as well as his work at Pusey House, is the cantor at Campion Hall, and directs Oxford-based early music ensemble, Antiquum Documentum. He currently studies the organ with William Whitehead and singing with Giles Underwood. He has previously studied the organ with Stephen Disley and Peter Wright. Alexander has been a member of the Pusey House Choir since January 2023.

Alexander

Trowell

Tenor, Musician-in-residence

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Singaporean soprano Natasha Da Costa is currently reading for an MSt in Musicology at Oriel College, Oxford after completing BMus (Hons) in Vocal Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Whilst studying at the Academy, she was a recipient of the Royal Academy of Music Scholarship associated with the Molly Bridge Award, the winner of the 2024 Joan Chissell/Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize, a finalist of the Kathleen Ferrier Competition for Young Singers 2020, and a MIRO Gallerié Award recipient of the 23rd Mikulas Schneider Trnavsky International Vocal Competition 2019. Under the tutelage of Marie Vassiliou and Christopher Glynn, Natasha performed her debut role as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) in the Vocal Faculty Opera Scenes. Natasha’s concert highlights include a solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall for All Souls Langham Place Prom Praise 2024, a Lieder recital at St. John’s Smith Square in June 2024, and soloist with the Philharmonic Winds Orchestra, Singapore 2023. Throughout her 20 years of singing, Natasha has performed across different countries which include Austria, Slovakia, Indonesia, UK, and the US. She has had masterclasses with famous musicians from all over the world such as Christian Gerhahrer, Hartmut Höll, Claudia Visca, Rannveig-Braga Postl, Maria Gessler, and John Vaida. Natasha is looking forward to her time as choral scholar with Pusey House this academic year.

Natasha

da Costa

Soprano

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Anneka Vetter is a second-year undergraduate student, reading music at Oriel College, Oxford. Alongside singing in the choir at Pusey House, Anneka Vetter is an exhibitioner in Merton College Choir. Anneka continues to expand her solo repertories by performing in regular recitals across Oxford’s colleges. She has also appeared on stage as a soloist in oratorios such as Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s Magnificat and Haydn’s Creation. As well as performing as a soloist and in choirs in the classical repertory, Anneka also enjoys singing jazz with the Oxford Gargoyles. Alongside her work as a singer, Anneka is a violist, and holds an instrumental award at Oriel College. She has similarly immersed herself in the instrumental scene in Oxford, as a member of the Oxford University Orchestra, the Oxford Baroque Players and the St Anne’s Camerata. Anneka is part of the tuition scheme with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, through which she learns with Jonathan Barritt. An NYO alumna, Anneka also spent seven years at the Royal College of Music under their junior programme, both playing and singing in the junior department’s flagship ensembles.

Anneka

Vetter

Alto

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Sòlas is reading for an MPhil in Celtic Studies at Jesus College, Oxford, after completing a BA in English Language and Literature. He is a former Choral Scholar of Exeter College Chapel Choir, Oxford, and in addition to singing at Pusey House, sings with Schola Cantorum of Oxford and deps with choirs across Oxford. Sòlas was raised in Scotland, performing regularly with local and regional choral and musical ensembles, including regular performances at The Usher Hall, Edinburgh. He is a long-standing member of the National Youth Choir of Scotland, performing across Britain and Europe, and as well as singing with the flagship youth choir, sang with its Edinburgh Chamber Choir and Consort. He has performed often in the Edinburgh International Festival, including Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, and Faure’s Damnation of Faust. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under their junior programme, singing in various choral ensembles and undergoing tuition as a clarinettist.

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McDonald

Alto

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Sam is a third-year student of Classics at the Queen’s College, Oxford, where he is also a choral scholar. Before joining Oxford, he spent a year singing professionally with the Vokalkapelle of the Theatinerkirche in Munich, directed by Fr Robert Mehlhart OP, now president of the Pontifical Institute of Music in Rome. He was raised in Surrey and went to Charterhouse School, where he was taught singing by Jennifer Snapes and piano by Clive Williamson.

Sam

Troy

Tenor

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Ben is a third year Classics and English student at Queen's College Oxford, where he also is a choral scholar. As well as Queen's, he regularly performs with the Oxford Bach Soloists, Continuum, the Delius Singers and the Oxford Gargoyles. He has also appeared as a soloist in various productions nationally and internationally, including the title roles in Don Giovanni with the Oxford Opera Society in 2024, Gianni Schicchi in Umbria in 2024, and Menotti's The Telephone in the British Embassy in Rome in 2023.

Ben

Gilchrist

Bass

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Elliott was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where he trained as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, being a treble for 9 years and finally moving to the bass section a month shy of his 17th birthday. He is currently in his second year of an MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, having done his undergraduate in Classics and Art History with a minor in Theology at Georgetown University. While there, he was a Choral Scholar with the chapel choir, a member of the Chamber Singers, and the protopsaltis (head chanter) of the Orthodox chaplaincy, as well as their sacristan. In addition to Pusey House, where he has been singing since Holy Week of 2024, Elliott sings in the choir of St. John’s College.

Elliott

Clark

Bass

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Recordings

Short recordings of the choir from services

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