Academic Biography

Alexander Pott is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, specialising in the music of Frederick Delius, supervised by Prof Katharine Ellis and supported by the Delius Trust. His thesis looks at Delius’s 1890s works in the cultural context of Delius’s adopted city during the period, Paris. This research grew out of a Master of Studies undertaken at New College, Oxford and supervised by Dr Joanna Bullivant, which he passed with Distinction. This area of expertise also informs some of Alexander’s other musical activities, such as conducting The Delius Singers, a choir of students and young professionals in Oxford, and the recent CD recording of music connected by Delius, released on the Convivium label. He gave a paper at the Royal Musical Association 2025 conference on ‘Music and the Occult: The case of Delius’ and has upcoming articles in the Delius Society Journal on Delius’s second opera, The Magic Fountain, and on Delius’s nexus of friends in Paris. Having previously taught Keyboard Skills, Techniques of Composition, and Musicology papers at the University of Oxford, Alexander now has a similar teaching profile at the University of Cambridge.

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