On Saturday 5 July the chapel choir of Worcester College Oxford will be performing evensong at the Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula in central Brussels. The service starts at 16h00 and is free with no booking required.

Evensong is a sung-through choral service combining elements of Vespers and Compline. The music for this service includes English composers as varied as Thomas Tallis and Caroline Shaw, while also encompassing European masters from Josquin des Prez to Avro Pärt.

Worcester College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford and was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was adopted by the college. Worcester’s predecessor, Gloucester College, had been an institution of learning on the same site in Oxford since the late 13th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.

Worcester College Chapel was built in the 18th century. George Clarke, Henry Keene, and James Wyatt were responsible for different stages of its lengthy construction. The interior columns and pilasters, the dome, and the delicate foliage plastering are all Wyatt's work. His classical interior was insufficiently emphatic for the tastes of militant Victorian churchmen, and between 1864 and 1866 the chapel was redecorated by William Burges. It is highly unusual and decorative; being predominantly pink, the pews are decorated with carved animals, including kangaroos and whales, and the walls are riotously colourful, and include frescoes of dodos and peacocks. Oscar Wilde said of the Chapel, "As a piece of simple decorative and beautiful art it is perfect, and the windows very artistic."

Notable alumni of Worcester College include the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, television producer and Dr Who screenwriter Russell T Davies, US Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, Fields medallist Simon Donaldson, and novelist Richard Adams.