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 2026–2027 Season
Voices
Michael Barrett
Cody Bowers
Paul Guttry
Corey Dalton Hart
Steven Hrycelak
Kim Leeds
David McFerrin
Jason McStoots
Sophie Michaux
James Reese
Aaron Sheehan
Elisa Sutherland
Sonja DuToit Tengblad
Sumner Thompson
Orí Harmelin, lute
Scott Metcalfe, artistic director, violin, harp & vielle
Allison Monroe, fiddle & rebec
Debra Nagy, douçaine & recorder
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
Carolann Buff
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
Grant Herreid, guitar
Priscilla Herreid, guest artistic director, winds
Jonathan Hess, percussion
William Hite
Ian Howell
William Hudson
Greg Ingles, brass & winds
Laura Jeppesen, fiddle & rebec
Lydia Knutson
Virginie Landré
Steven Lundahl, trombone
Simon Martyn-Ellis, vihuela & guitar
Kyle Masterson
Ben Matus, dulcian & recorder
Terence McKinney
Owen McIntosh
Clare McNamara
David McSweeney
Eric Milnes, organ
Reginald Mobley
Ashley Mulcahy
Elena Mullins
Martin Near
Alexander Nishibun
Johanna Novom, violin
Alexandra Opsahl, cornetto
Andrew Padgett
Gerrod Pagenkopf
Timothy Parsons
Kevin Payne, lute
Jacob Perry
Jessica Petrus
Ken Pierce, dancer
John Proft
Laura Pudwell
Alessandro Quarta, harpsichord, speaker
Mack Ramsey, trombone
Stefan Reed
Sian Ricketts, winds
Mark Rimple, lute
Margot Rood
Emma-Lisa Roux, lute
Carol Schlaikjer
Erik Schmalz, trombone
David Thorne Scott
Jane Sheldon
Corey Shotwell
David Simmons-Duffin
Steven Soph
Mark Sprinkle
Julia Steinbok
Daniel Stillman, dulcian
Peter Sykes
Ulysses Thomas
Jeffrey Thompson
Paul Max Tipton
Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto
Daniela Tošić
Louise Treitman
Charles Turner
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