The Hildegard Choir has been delighting audiences of all ages since it was founded by Lucy Haigh in 1991. Formed to give talented girls the opportunity to sing together to a high standard, there are now three choirs providing an intensive training in choral music. The girls are drawn from schools around Oxford and their singing is much in demand. In its short history, the Hildegard Choir has won numerous awards in competitions, including at the Sainsbury's Choir of the Year, and was crowned 'Choir of Choirs' at the International Choir Festival of Jersey. After recent concerts of Brahms and Schumann, a special performance for Oxford University and the Astronomer Royal, and a collaboration with Sospiri in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the choir is excited to be working on projects with John Lubbock in London and with countertenor Michael Chance in Oxford’s Botanic Gardens. The choir’s new CD, So sweet a melody (SOMM 2010), of works by Vaughan Williams, Rheinberger, Liszt, Godar and Britten, has been described by critics as ‘joyous’, ‘sublimely liquescent’, with ‘singing of soufflé-light wonderment’.