Organist Biography

Alexander Pott is a prize-winning organist and teacher, based in Cambridge and London, where he is Director of Music at St Cuthbert’s Church, Earl’s Court and the Organist for King’s Voices in Cambridge. He was previously Assistant Organist and Tutor to the Choristers at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was involved in planning and then celebrating the new four-manual Eule Organ, installed in 2023. As part of these celebrations, he performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach over two terms, raising over £10,000 for charity in the process. Being passionate about bringing new audiences to the organ, he also organised an education day which saw many school children take part in celebrating the new instrument and learning about its construction. As a noted improviser, he provided improvised accompaniment to the silent film ‘Salome’ in the Oxford Festival of the Arts 2023 to a sold-out chapel. In 2025 he released the first CD of the new organ, ‘The Eule Organ of Magdalen College, Oxford’ on the Convivium label, receiving excellent reviews. Fanfare Magazine gave the album five starts and concluded that ‘Pott is a superb organist’, whilst Choir & Organ Magazine described the recording as ‘particularly inspired… warmly recommended’.

Alexander’s training started as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, where he had his first organ lessons on the Abbey organ. After a music scholarship to Merchant Taylor’s School where he was taught by Richard Hobson, organ scholarships at Chelmsford Cathedral, Christ Church, Oxford and Westminster Cathedral followed, with teachers including Margaret Phillips, Thomas Trotter, and Colin Walsh. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists whilst a music student at Christ Church, later receiving the W. T. Best Award from the Musicians’ Company and the The Flentrop Scholarship from the Eric Thompson Trust, allowing him to take lessons abroad with Hans Fagius, Bine Bryndorf, and Pieter van Djik, amongst others.

Alexander is in demand as a teacher, giving masterclasses for the organ scholars of Cambridge and Oxford, and having taught for a number of the colleges in both places. He is regularly invited to give organ recitals, especially in Bach festivals (such as the St Albans International Organ Festival; at Trinity College, Cambridge; and the Contius-Orgel Inauguration Festival, Leuven, Belgium) and in other prestigious venues (recently including King’s College, Cambridge, St Paul’s Cathedral, and the Royal Military Chapel). He plays continuo on the organ and harpsichord, and has toured internationally with the Dunedin Consort and Oxford Bach Soloists. As a liturgical organist he has a vast experience of Anglican and Catholic services, recently being called upon to play for a service of Vespers celebrated by Pope Leo XIV at Domus Australia with the Gradualia Consort, and has frequently accompanied Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3 with the choirs of The Edington Festival, Magdalen and Christ Church Colleges, Oxford, and Westminster Cathedral.

More information on each of his activities can be found below: