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Music at Pusey House

An overview.

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Spring and Summer 2026

Choral Benediction

In addition to our weekly congregational Sung Benedictions at 6pm on a Friday, on select dates throughout the Spring and Summer, the voluntary choir (the Pusey Signers) will sing choral settings of the O Salutaris and Tantum Ergo. This is a short service (c. 15 mins) which follows Evening Prayer at 5:30pm. All welcome.


Do you sing? We are always looking for new members of the Pusey Singers! Please see below for details of how to join.

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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

Hilary 2024

Michaelmas 2023

Trinity 2023

Trinity 2022

Hilary 2020

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House
Musicans

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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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Jeremy

Wan

Associate Organist

Jeremy Wan is an organist, saxophonist and composer. He is currently the Assistant Organist at Worcester College, Oxford having been organ scholar at Truro Cathedral (2024-2025) and at Guildford Cathedral (2023-2024). Jeremy graduated from the University of Glasgow with a distinction in Musicology (MMus) under the supervision of John Butt. During his time in Glasgow, Jeremy studied under Kevin Bowyer whilst serving as organ scholar, accompanying the University Chapel Choir in their regular services, radio broadcasts and tours. He was also the Director of Music at All Saints, Bearsden. As an accompanist, Jeremy has worked with the Scottish Opera, Glasgow Cathedral Choral Society, and the University’s Choral Societies. He also appears regularly as a recitalist and has performed in many venues including the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. In his free time, Jeremy enjoys solving puzzles and cooking.
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Isabella

Turilli

Alto

Isabella Turilli is a DPhil student in International Relations at Merton College. She grew up in Washington, D.C., where she trained with the Levine School of Music and regularly performed as a soloist across the city, including at the Kennedy Center and DC Arena Stage. As a choral singer, she has been active with the Georgetown University Chamber Singers and the Choral Arts Society of Washington. In Oxford, Isabella sings with the St Peter’s College Chapel Choir as well as Pusey House. Outside of singing, Isabella is an amateur knitter and a devoted fan of the Washington Capitals.
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Matthew

Rengert

Tenor

Matthew Rengert is a third-year undergraduate reading Theology and Religion at Wycliffe Hall. Matthew was raised in Norfolk, and was a chorister at St Nicholas’ Parish Church, North Walsham, where he sang weekly services and performed in local concerts. In Oxford, he sings with Schola Cantorum of Oxford – which has included concerts in London and Oxford with La Nuova Musica and Instruments of Time and Truth – and Oriel College Chapel Choir – with residencies in Norwich and St Paul’s Cathedrals – alongside his commitments within the Choir of Pusey House.
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Hugh

O'Donnell

Bass

Hugh is in his third year reading for an MCompSci at Hertford College. In conjunction with his obligations as a choral scholar at Pusey House, he sings two services a week as a choral clerk for Hertford and frequently deps at Worcester College. Hugh started singing as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, singing seven services each week, alongside extra services and concerts in periods of particular liturgical significance. Continuing his singing as a choral scholar at Tonbridge School, as well as singing every Thursday outside the school terms at St Margaret Pattens, Hugh has cherished the stability provided by regular music-making in a liturgical setting. In his free time, Hugh enjoys fishing and hot showers.
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Ben

Peters

Bass

Ben is a Baritone whose main choral commitments this academic year are at Worcester College and Pusey House, singing a total of five services a week during term. Having found a home in the Pusey community and having worshipped there for a number of years now, including frequent altar party serving, Ben is delighted to have joined the Pusey House Choir this year to serve in a new way, being particularly honoured to sing the Propers and cantor the Mass when offered the chance. Professionally, Ben is an engineer working in the research and development of sustainable fuels and energy security. His other interests include hosting and attending dinner parties, reading, pubs, skiing, surfing and learning Italian.
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Recordings

Short recordings of the choir from services

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