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Artistic direction

Alexander Trowell

Tenor, Director & Co-Founder

Alexander was raised in South London and started his musical training as a chorister at Southwark Cathedral.  During his gap-year, Alexander was organ scholar at St. Mary Magdalene, Richmond. He then studied Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, he was also a choral scholarship at Keble College and a member of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford.  Alexander then stayed working in Oxford for an additional year, during which time he was Musician-in-Residence at Pusey House, and the cantor at Campion Hall.   From September 2025 to Easter 2026, Alexander was organist at St. Peter’s Streatham, before moving to St. Mary the Virgin, Mortlake.  In addition to his duties at St. Mary’s, Alexander is the Music Administrator at The Lady Eleanor Holles School.  He currently studies the organ with William Whitehead and singing with Giles Underwood. He has previously studied the organ with Stephen Disley and Peter Wright, and has previously studied singing with Luise Horrocks and Sam Queen.

Ed Gaut

Bass, Organ

Audio-visual & web managment

Edward is the Master of Music at Pusey House, where he enjoys the variety of the musical offering, which includes playing the organ, directing the Chapel and voluntary choirs and cantoring for mid-week services. In addition, Ed is the organist of Campion Hall, Oxford and accompanist of the Oxford Bach Choir. He currently studies organ with Christian Wilson.

Ed read Music at Keble College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar (2022-2025), accompanying the pattern of weekly college services. Whilst at Oxford, Ed studied conducting with Will Dawes and organ with David Ponsford (as part of the Oxford-RAM scheme), having previously studied organ with Adrian Bawtree and Stephen Farr.  Before going up to Oxford, he spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Anne Page and David Titterington. He leaves Oxford at the end of the academic year to take up the organ scholarship at Canterbury Cathedral.

Jarek Jankowski

Co-Founder

Jarek is a theologian, and has recently completed a doctorate at St. Andrew’s during which time he was a lay clerk in the Choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.  Before this he studied for Masters degree at Keble College, Oxford and was a Graduate Choral Assistant in the choir there.  He co-founded Antiquum Documentum and sung tenor with the group until 2026.  He has contributed to the research and implementation of our liturgical reconstructions.  He is now a tutor and researcher in Sydney, Australia.

Other Group Members

Soprano

Lois Heslop

Mezzo-soprano

Veronica Tarka

Cosima Clara Gillhammer

Tenor

Josh Clough

Bass

Hugh O’Donnell

Dan Greenway

Friends of the group

Graphic design

Alina Jankowski

Alina provides us with most of our artwork. She is a freelance graphic designer and animator. Please see the link below to see more of her excellent work!

See more of Alina's work here