is a mixed-voice choir that was formed in 1995 in Oxford, with the aim of performing a wide repertoire of choral music to a high standard. The choir has sung music from all periods, including Byrd, Vivaldi, Mozart, Britten, Bernstein, Pärt and Tavener – and has performed in all the major Oxford venues, including Keble College Chapel, The Church of St John the Evangelist, The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Blackfriars Church, Merton College Chapel and Christ Church Cathedral. has also sung the Fauré Requiem in Westminster Abbey. is a Champion of the BBC Ten Pieces scheme, and has given concerts of ten choral pieces in Islip and Blackbird Leys, involving local primary school children.

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Director: James Morley Potter

Concert Season 2019-202025th anniversary season

JAMES MORLEY POTTER is Director of Music at St Mary’s Church, Battersea, Director of Cathedral Singers at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Music Director of Wokingham Choral Society, and Director of

. He is also Chapel Music Advisor to Hertford College, Oxford. Having studied at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, he subsequently worked for several years as a professional singer, singing in the world-renowned choral foundations of Magdalen College and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, touring widely and appearing on critically-acclaimed recordings. In addition to conducting, he is also active as a writer on music, regularly contributing programme notes and essays to groups such as The Tallis Scholars, The Cardinall’s Musick, Dunedin Consort, The Eric Whitacre Singers, and others. He has lectured on early music for the University of Oxford Continuing Education Department.

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Friday 13 December 2019 | 7:30 pm Keble College Chapel, Oxford

A Rose E’er Blooming

Saturday 21 March 2020 | 7:30 pm University Church, Oxford

Jubilate 25th Anniversary ConcertJubilate! The unequivocal instruction which gives our choir its name – rejoice! We’ve plenty to celebrate in this concert as we mark our 25th anniversary. And for music of rejoicing, why look further than the Jubilate itself, the great 100th psalm? An astonishing variety of music for choir, organ, and piano, will include stirring music by Walton, Britten, Howells, Pachelbel, and Purcell, as well as a rare performance of Amy Beach’s epic Festival Jubilate.

The message of the Christmas season – that a child shall be born to save us all – is told first to Mary via an angelic salutation. In our Christmas concert, we explore music associated with Mary as the ‘mystic rose’, in carols ranging from the Renaissance to the present day, including familiar masterpieces by Parsons, Mouton, Howells, Bruckner, Villette and Berkeley, as well as modern classics by Arvo Pärt and Jan Sandström. This concert will also feature the world premiere of the winning composition from our Carol Competition.

Saturday 13 June 2020 | 7:30 pm Merton College Chapel, Oxford

A Choral MenagerieEpic dragon battles in heaven, conquering lions and silver swans, cats, mice, owls, unicorns, seals, even birds of paradise – they’re all featured in our curated menagerie of music inspired by the animal kingdom. Britten’s monumental Rejoice in the Lamb – energetic, lithe, mystical – is the centrepiece of the concert, which also includes Tavener’s The Lamb, Whitacre’s Seal Lullaby, and Bob Chilcott’s Aesop’s Fables, as well as music by Gibbons, Ravel and others.

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