Aidan Oliver (Director of Music) is one of the UK's most sought-after choral directors of the younger generation. Alongside his work at St Margaret's Church, he is the chorus master of Philharmonia Voices, a professional chorus which performs with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the director of Spiritus Chamber Choir, the vocal ensemble which he founded. He has worked as chorus master with the BBC Singers, the Bach Choir, English National Opera and Apollo Voices; he is also the conductor of Wokingham Choral Society. In the field of opera he works extensively as a repetiteur at Covent Garden and other major companies, while as assistant conductor to Richard Hickox he has worked at the St Endellion Festival and on several major opera recording projects.