Blue Heron
About
Blue Heron is a Boston-area vocal ensemble devoted to Renaissance and medieval music, combining study of original sources and historical performance practice with vivid live performance. It presents a subscription concert series in Cambridge and releases recordings on its own Blue Heron label. Its repertoire spans 15th-century English and Franco-Flemish polyphony, Spanish music from 1500 to 1600 and neglected early 16th-century English music, and it also performs earlier and later works.
The Boston Globe has called the ensemble one of the Boston music community’s indispensables. Between 2010 and 2017 it released a five-CD series of music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, copied around 1540 for Canterbury Cathedral, including many world premiere recordings; the set is now available as The Lost Music of Canterbury. Blue Heron has appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival, The Cloisters, the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art, and on tours to Canada and England.
What to Know
- In 2018 Blue Heron won the Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, the first group from outside Europe to receive it.
- The ensemble also holds the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
- Scott Metcalfe leads the ensemble.
- It has been ensemble in residence at Boston University’s Center for Early Music Studies and at Boston College.
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