Blue Heron is a highly flexible performing organization which draws from a roster of musicians in order to constitute the ensemble best suited to the repertoire at hand. The ensemble may range in size from three singers (for a fifteenth-century song) to a dozen (for an early sixteenth-century English festal mass) and adds instruments when appropriate. The performers are drawn largely from Boston’s early music community, with other musicians from New York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Haven, Montreal, Toronto, and Cleveland.
Performers in the 2025-2026 Season
Voices
Michael Barrett
Cody Bowers
Paul Guttry
Corey Dalton Hart
Steven Hrycelak
Kim Leeds
David McFerrin
Jason McStoots
Sophie Michaux
Timothy Parsons
Laura Pudwell
Stefan Reed
James Reese
Margot Rood
Aaron Sheehan
Elisa Sutherland
Sonja DuToit Tengblad
Sumner Thompson
Orí Harmelin, lute
Grant Herreid, guitar
Jonathan Hess, percussion
Ben Matus, dulcian & recorder
Scott Metcalfe, artistic director, violin, harp & vielle
Debra Nagy, douçaine & recorder
Alessandro Quarta, reader
Guest Artists from Piffaro
Priscilla Herreid, artistic director, winds & reeds
Grant Herreid, winds, reeds, & lute
Greg Ingles, brass & winds
Allison Monroe, fiddle & rebec
Sian Ricketts, winds & reeds
Co-Founders of Blue Heron
Performers in Previous Seasons
Ryaan Ahmed, guitar
Julie Andrijeski, violin
Jennifer Ashe
Ohad Ashkenazi, actor
Becky Baxter, double harp
Cameron Beauchamp
Glenn Billingsley
Steven Bradshaw
Sarah Brailey
Lydia Brotherton
Jonas Budris
Dashon Burton
Bella Cadena, actor
Megan Chartrand
Michael Collver, cornetto
Allen Combs
Anna Danilevskaia, vihuela de arco
Dark Horse Consort
Carley DeFranco
Pamela Dellal
Cecilia Duarte
Camilla Finlay, dancer
Daniel Fridley
Brad Fugate
Philippe Gagné
Felicia Gavilanes
Brian Giebler
Jolle Greenleaf
Anna Griffis, viola
Jade Guerra
Hank Heijink, lute
William Hite
Ian Howell
Laura Jeppesen, fiddle & rebec
Lydia Knutson
Steven Lundahl, trombone
Simon Martyn-Ellis, vihuela & guitar
Owen McIntosh
Clare McNamara
David McSweeney
Eric Milnes, organ
Reginald Mobley
Elena Mullins
Martin Near
Alexander Nishibun
Johanna Novom, violin
Alexandra Opsahl, cornetto
Andrew Padgett
Gerrod Pagenkopf
Kevin Payne, lute
Jacob Perry
Jessica Petrus
Ken Pierce, dancer
John Proft
Mack Ramsey, trombone
Mark Rimple, lute
Emma-Lisa Roux, lute
Erik Schmalz, trombone
David Thorne Scott
Jane Sheldon
Corey Shotwell
Steven Soph
Mark Sprinkle
Julia Steinbok
Daniel Stillman, dulcian
Peter Sykes
Ulysses Thomas
Paul Max Tipton
Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto
Daniela Tošić
Louise Treitman
Teresa Wakim
Emily Walhout, bass violin
Peter Walker
John Taylor Ward
Charles Weaver, lute
Brenna Wells
Bob Wiemken, dulcian & recorder
Zachary Wilder
Shari Alise Wilson
Darrick Yee
Tom Zajac
Daniel Zuluaga, vihuela & guitar
