Praetorius – Es Ist Ein Ros
Vaughan Williams – This is the Truth
Good King Wenceslas
Weir – Drop Down Ye Heavens
Bach – O Little One Sweet
Arr. Lindner – Silent Night
Howells – A Spotless Rose
Briggs – A Tender Shoot
Leontovych – Carol of the Bells
Todd – My Lord Has Come
O Come All Ye Faithful
Walker – Away in a Manger
Gritton – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

St Martin’s Voices Emerging Artists

St Martin’s Voices is passionate about offering development opportunities for young artists across the UK, aiming to nurture the next generation of talented ensemble singers and choral conductors. The St Martin’s Voices Emerging Artists programme provides an opportunity for six singers to enjoy an intensive, focused period of training with others of a similar standard and interests and is an integral part of the exciting choral music programme at St Martin-in-the-Fields. The scheme is aimed at choral singers who are in the first few years of a professional career in singing and wish to develop their skills as choral and consort singers to a high level. Recent highlights have included tours to the USA, the Netherlands and Belgium, alongside recordings and performances at Lambeth Palace, the Houses of Parliament and the Greenbelt Festival.

Olivia is a London based conductor, currently working as Assistant Director of Music at St Martin-in-the-Fields, workshop leader with The Sixteen, and guest conductor of several chamber choirs and orchestras around London. At St Martin’s, she directs the Artist Development Programmes, including the Choral Scholarships, Emerging Artists and Associate Choral Leader programmes and has enjoyed directing Church of England recordings, BBC Radio 3 live broadcasts and concerts with the St Martin’s orchestra and London Mozart Players. Previously, Olivia has been assistant conductor of Blackheath Halls Opera and the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra, and has conducted concerts at Dartington Summer School, been a member of the Jette Parker Women Conductors at the Royal Opera House, and as the Genesis Sixteen conducting scholar, where she worked closely with Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan. In 2021, Olivia placed as finalist at the DIMA International Choral Conducting Competition in 2021, where she won the Gheorge Dima Special Prize. She gained a distinction in her MA Choral Conducting from the Royal Academy of Music, under the tuition of Patrick Russill, where she won the Alan Kirby Prize.

Olivia Tait conductor

Olivia is a London based conductor, currently working as Assistant Director of Music at St Martin-in-the-Fields, workshop leader with The Sixteen, and guest conductor of several chamber choirs and orchestras around London. At St Martin’s, she directs the Artist Development Programmes, including the Choral Scholarships, Emerging Artists and Associate Choral Leader programmes and has enjoyed directing Church of England recordings, BBC Radio 3 live broadcasts and concerts with the St Martin’s orchestra and London Mozart Players. Previously, Olivia has been assistant conductor of Blackheath Halls Opera and the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra, and has conducted concerts at Dartington Summer School, been a member of the Jette Parker Women Conductors at the Royal Opera House, and as the Genesis Sixteen conducting scholar, where she worked closely with Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan. In 2021, Olivia placed as finalist at the DIMA International Choral Conducting Competition in 2021, where she won the Gheorge Dima Special Prize. She gained a distinction in her MA Choral Conducting from the Royal Academy of Music, under the tuition of Patrick Russill, where she won the Alan Kirby Prize.