Biography
Originally established in 2003 by Hilary Campbell during her undergraduate years at York University alongside the seventeen singers who continue to form its core, the London-based ensemble known variously as Blossom Street, the Blossom Street Choir, or the Blossom Street Singers quickly rose among Britain’s favored compact vocal groups. Their programs, noted for an inventive yet approachable mix, have reached audiences through appearances at prominent concert halls as well as frequent spots on national radio and television. Early visibility arrived when a Christmas carol medley they recorded aired during a BBC 2 snooker event; further momentum followed the move to London in 2007, which stabilized the roster and led to an ITV1 broadcast from Prince Charles’s sixtieth-birthday festivities in 2008 and a 2009 debut at Queen Elizabeth Hall within the Voicelab series. Subsequent engagements have included St. James Piccadilly, St John’s Smith Square, Wigmore Hall, and the Edinburgh Fringe, alongside tours through Sweden, Spain, and Japan. Broadcast presence has remained strong, with regular features on Classic FM and several appearances on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, the most recent in January 2019 highlighting material from the all-female Naxos disc This Day. That 2018 release, their third for the label after the 2011 holiday collection Sleep, holy babe and the 2013 British folk-song anthology Down by the Sea, marked the centenary of women’s suffrage in Britain through works by female composers. They also issued A short while for dreaming: Choral works by Peter Warlock on Resonus Classics in 2014 and are preparing another Naxos album of Christmas music by women composers for 2020. From the same circle emerged the affiliated jazz and pop group Blossom Close.
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