He was a member of Winchester Cathedral Choir under David Hill from 1991 until 2001, touring the USA, the Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, France and Norway and also participating in many CD recordings and broadcasts[3] For many years Pott was John Bennett Lecturer in Music at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
In 2020 he was announced as recipient of the Medal of the Royal College of Organists - its highest award - in recognition of distinguished achievement as a composer of organ and sacred choral music.
[5] His oratorio A Song on the End of the World, named after a Czesław Miłosz poem from Nazi-occupied Warsaw and written as the last pre-millennial Elgar Commission of the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester, was hailed as "thrilling, apocalyptic and profoundly affecting".
In December 2013 Pott signed an exclusive contract with Peters Edition in London, to cover all his future choral and organ work and items from his back catalogue that remain unpublished.
As of 2023,[update] Pott's recent compositional projects include a 42-minute violin concerto, as yet unperformed owing to the ramifications of Covid and lockdown; also Tandem, a 25-minute two piano work in three movements, premiered by the composer with Jeremy Filsell in New York, October 2022.
Current and future projects include a concerto for Cor Anglais and small orchestra, a concert overture entitled Hocket Science, and a large-scale symphony.