Conducting Biography

Alexander Pott is a conductor known for his innovative programming of choral music with education at its centre. As Director of Music at St Cuthbert’s Church, Earl’s Court, he directs weekly services with a choir of professional singers and choral scholars, and conducts concerts of the choir as part of the ChamberMusicBox concert series. He also founded and directs The Delius Singers, a choir based in Oxford which performs termly concerts of music from the nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular interest in championing lesser-known works. This also interesects with his academic specalism in the music of Frederick Delius, whose works have been performed by the group alongside works by Lili Boulanger, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Howells, Bernstein, Reger and Brahms, amongst others.

Directing children’s choirs has always been a passion for Alexander, and over seven years as Assistant Organist at Magdalen College he conducted services and taught choristers, including a term as Acting Director of Music in 2023. During this time he directed daily chorister rehearsals and services in chapel, as well as conducting concerts of Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri with the choir and Oxford Bach Soloists, in Magdalen and in the Temple Church, London. He also set up the choir’s first music outreach initiative, taking the choral scholars to local schools to provide singing opportunities. In the summer, Alexander is the Director of the Nave Choir in the Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy, a week-long celebration of choral worship with a choir of choristers selected from the best of the UK’s cathedrals and chapels.

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