St Margaret's Church has had an exceptionally high reputation for music-making over the centuries, which continues with the high standard of choral and organ music maintained today.

The Director of Music, Aidan Oliver, leads a fully professional choir every Sunday morning, sopranos alternating week by week during term time with choristers. St Margaret’s organist is the world-renowned recitalist, Thomas Trotter.

The choir’s repertoire spans every period from Renaissance to modern. Composers regularly featured in services include Byrd, Palestrina, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Stanford, Vierne and MacMillan. Recent commissions include works from Simon Lloyd, Matthew Martin, Francis Grier, John Sanders and Alan Wilson.

In 2001 St Margaret’s adult choir, under its former Director of Music, Simon Over, recorded a CD of two previously unrecorded Lassus masses. This CD is available for purchase from the Westminster Abbey Bookshop.

St Margaret’s, affectionately known as ‘the Parish Church of the House of Commons’, has a long association with both houses of Parliament, and our musicians are often called upon for weddings, funerals, and services of thanksgiving held at the church for Peers, Members of Parliament, and Parliamentary staff.

The choir has toured the United States of America on three occasions, and sang at several venues in Rome in 1995.

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