Edward Gaut – organ

The Programme

Edward Gaut – organ

March ‘Dignity and Impudence’
arranged Malcolm Riley

‘Gigue’ Fugue in G major, BWV 577

Praeludium in G major

‘Gigue’ Fugue in C major, BuxWV 174

Marche héroïque

The Artist

Edward Gaut is the Master of Music at Pusey House, Oxford – an Anglo-Catholic chapel and library founded in memory of one of the leading theologians of the Oxford movement, Dr Edward Bouverie Pusey. He enjoys the variety of the musical offering here, 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.