Oriel College Chapel Choir is a group of mixed-voice singers drawn from the student body. Up to sixteen choral scholars lead the ensemble. Their vocal development is supervised by Kari Moffatt. The choir sings full choral services each week during term-time through the academic year. It draws widely on the historical repertory of sacred choral music and is committed to the on-going development of that tradition.

In 2017, it premiered the cantata Hymn of the Third Choir of Angelicals (1895) by the distinguished music historian and editor, Edmund Fellowes (college alumnus). It has also commissioned new works from such composers as Judith Bingham, David Briggs, Herbert Chappell (college alumnus), Phillip A. Cooke, Kenneth Hesketh and Mark R. Taylor.

The commissioning of Judith Bingham’s Magnificat celebrated thirty years of female students at Oriel College. The choir cultivates a warm, blended tone ideally suited to the intimate and focused acoustic of the college’s seventeenth-century chapel.