2020 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 09 | 08 | 07 | 06 | 05 | 04 | 03 | 02 | 01 | 00 | 99 A Blue Heron Christmas Special Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 7:30 PM EST BROADCAST ONLINE details> French Songs I: Les peres de joyeuseté Songs by Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Du Fay & others, c. 1420-50. Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 7:30 PM BROADCAST ONLINE details> CANCELED: Ockeghem@600, Concert 10: Missa Quinti Toni Friday, May 15,…
…t is always striving for emotional engagement with audiences above all. In 2018, Blue Heron and Scott Metcalfe received the prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, which made it the first non-European ensemble to win in that category in the entire 41-year history of the awards. Ockeghem@600: The Complete Works of Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497) A thirteen-concert project over six years to perform all the surviving music of on…
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A brief history of Blue Heron, 1999-2019 Blue Heron was founded in 1999 by two singers, Noël Bisson and Cheryl Ryder, and a director, Scott Metcalfe, following a chance encounter and conversation between Cheryl and Scott on the Waverley bus. The three founders brought a combination of experience to the project. Noël Bisson is also a scholar who earned a PhD in musicology from Harvard University with a dissertation on the music of the Eton Choirbo…
…An American Songbook Cabaret with Silent Auction Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:30 PM Live & Interactive Cocktail hour (premium only) 7:30 PM Cabaret Click here to bid in the Silent Auction Tickets: $150 Premium | $75 General Have you ever wondered what our fabulous Blue Heron artists do when they aren’t singing beautiful medieval and renaissance pieces? Join us on the evening of Wednesday, September 23 to find out! The charismatic Herons will s…
…s 2nd Symphony with the Boston Philharmonic, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Drusilla, Fortuna) with Boston Baroque, Puccini’s Suor Angelica with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Lorelei Ensemble, Bach’s St. John Passion with the Handel & Haydn Society, Knussen’s Symphony No. 2 with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center debuts w…
November 4, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Award-Winning Blue Heron Presents Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol: Renaissance Polyphony & Turkish Makam Wednesday, November 18, 7:00 pm via Zoom Scott Metcalfe, Artistic Director Contact: Kathleen Brittan, Executive Director 978-395-1145 or kathleen@blueheron.org The first of Blue Heron’s newly created Spotlight Sessions will feature a taste of Many Voices, our March 2020 concert now rescheduled for the 2021-2022 seas…
…th the Portland Opera Young Artists Program and the Boston Early Music Festival Young Artists Program, as well as with the New England Conservatory’s Carr Collegium and Boston University in performances of Bach motets and a 2014 undertaking of the B-Minor Mass in which he was a soloist. Nishibun is a staff tenor with Trinity Church, Boston, where he recently sang solo arias in Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Magnificat. www.alexandernishibun.com….
…e Heron Soars On Two Recordings Karen Cook, Early Music America | June 15, 2020 . . . this is now the Ockeghem to beat. . . Having these two ambitious projects come to fruition in the same year is a feast for doting fans and newcomers alike. Both are landmark recordings — again, the de Rore is a world premiere, and there hasn’t been a recording of all of Ockeghem’s secular songs since the early 1980s. They both are also masterfully, sensitively do…
…mers. And, you can expect some wonders from Laura’s kitchen, as well (and as usual). Date and time to be mutually agreed upon by the musicians and the winning party. Fair market value: $1,500.00 Minimum bid: $1,000.00 Laura Jeppesen on the left, and Daniel Stepner on the right (photo of the Boston Museum Trio, with John Gibbons at center)…
…in partnership with the American Musicological Society Friday, November 1, 2019 • 7:30 PM Assembly District Hall 75 Northern Avenue Boston MA 02110 An evening of madrigals from I madrigali a cinque voci by Cipriano de Rore, celebrating the release of Blue Heron’s world-premiere recording of the complete book. Cipriano’s 1542 publication, conceived as a poetic cycle and organized by mode, features sonnets by Petrarch set in a complex and breathtaki…
…he Handel & Haydn Society in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers, and in concerts of Handel’s Chandos Anthems with Christopher Hogwood in Jordan Hall. Mr. Sprinkle has sung the Evangelist in Bach Passions with the Handel & Haydn Society, the Boulder Bach Festival, the Oriana Singers of Vermont, Seraphim Singers, Boston’s Chorus Pro Musica, and the Andover Choral Society, among others. This season he will appear in concerts wit…
Blue Heron is engaged in the exploration of Renaissance and medieval vocal music, putting the study of original sources in the service of vivid live performance. Widely regarded as the finest ensemble of its type in North America, Blue Heron presents a subscription series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a catalog of exceptional recordings is available on the Blue Heron label. The ensemble’s accolades include the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, making Blue Heron the first group from outside Europe to receive the award; the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society; and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Touring engagements have taken the group across the United States as well as to Canada and England. Blue Heron is early music for the 21st century.
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