The mixed-gender adult Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford, is among the most critically lauded in the ranks of Britain's university choirs, winning raves such as the description "revelatory and even visionary" from BBC Music Magazine. The Chapel at The Queen's College dates back to the year 1382, and music has been present since that time. Down to the present day, the primary function of the Choir of the Queen's College has been to provide music for regular Chapel services. The current Choir reaps benefits from an attractive blend of mostly student voices; its 30 members include 20 Choral Scholars who are Queen's College students, "Choral Exhibitioners" from other colleges at Oxford University, and two professional singers, known as lay clerks. Under director Owen Rees, who also holds an official university appointment as the Choir's organist, the Choir's training regimen reached a new level, and the group has been rewarded with tours throughout the U.K. and beyond, in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Taiwan, China, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, the U.S., and Sri Lanka. They have collaborated with both mainstream orchestras and with top early music ensembles, including the Brook Street Band and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and they are among the very few choirs to earn critical plaudits from both the crossover-oriented Classic FM radio network (which named the Choir's Carols from Queen's album its Drive Featured Album of the Week) and from the specialist Early Music Review, which praised the Choir's 2013 recording of Dixit Dominus settings by Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti as "a disc of unusually high calibre." Those were only two entries in a large recording catalog that began with albums on the Guild label and has continued with releases on Avie and Signum Classics. In 2018, the Choir mounted an American tour and released a new album on Signum, The House of the Mind.