On Thursday 4 June, every pew at St Peter's was taken. Around 150 people gathered despite the rain to hear the St Salvator's Chapel Choir of the University of St Andrews open its 2026 Swiss tour.

St Salvator's Chapel Choir is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished university choirs. The University of St Andrews was founded in 1413, and the choir's history reaches back to those earliest years, when students were obliged to sing in the university chapel as the Choristi Sanctiandree. Today around twenty-five mixed voices sing three services each week in St Salvator's Chapel, under their director Claire Innes-Hopkins FRCO.

The programme traced five centuries of sacred choral music — from the Renaissance polyphony of Thomas Tallis through Vaughan Williams and Walton to contemporary composers including Bob Chilcott — following the church's year through Lent, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost. The three Campbell Watterson Organ Scholars played Bach on St Peter's 1917 Goll organ, funded by readers of The Times of London following an appeal by the Revd Dudley Lampen, for the soldiers interned at Château-d'Œx during the First World War. The evening closed with Scotland the Brave, followed by an encore of Loch Lomond.

The choir is a real mix of nationalities, and two choristers — native French and German speakers — introduced pieces in their own languages, which suited the trilingual character of the local audience. "You can really tell when people like your performance," said one of the choristers, Grace. Rachel, from Chicago, on her first trip to Switzerland, called it "an exceptional audience, particularly with the immediate feedback they gave."

From St Peter's the choir went on to sing in Bern, Neuchâtel and Romainmôtier, joining Ensemble La Chapelle Saint-Marc for Handel's Dixit Dominus on the final dates. St Peter's is proud to have opened the tour, and glad that so many from the Pays-d'Enhaut and the Saanenland turned out to give the choir such a warm welcome.

St Peter's holds Evening Worship every Sunday at 5:30 PM, and warmly welcomes visitors and residents alike.