City of Prague Philharmonic and the Crouch End Festival Chorus

Not a festival-associated group, but an independent one, the Crouch End Festival Chorus first came together in the mid-'80s, founded by David Temple and John Gregson (the pair had both sung as tenors in the London Philharmonic Choir). By the next decade, the choir had become one of England's leading large choirs, as it built a wide ranging repertoire that incorporated selections from standard classics to less familiar contemporary works (resulting in a total of four Performing Right Society Enterprise Awards). Although it had racked up an impressive number of accomplishments b...