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, New Haven, Montreal, Toronto, Austin, Cleveland, northern California, and Seattle.
Performers in current season
Voices
Michael Barrett
Cody Bowers
Megan Chartrand
Carley DeFranco
Paul Guttry
Corey Dalton Hart
Steven Hrycelak
Kim Leeds
David McFerrin
Jason McStoots
Sophie Michaux
Reginald Mobley
Martin Near
James Reese
Margot Rood
Aaron Sheehan
Steven Soph
Sonja DuToit Tengblad
Sumner Thompson
Actors
Jade Guerra
Alessandro Quarta
Instrumentalists
Ryaan Ahmed, guitar
Anna Danilevskaia, medieval fiddle
Laura Jeppesen, viola, medieval fiddle & rebec
Jonathan Hess, percussion
Scott Metcalfe, violin, harp & medieval fiddle
Debra Nagy, douçaine, harp & recorder
Emma-Lisa Roux, lute
Bob Wiemken, dulcian & recorder
Co-founders of Blue Heron
Performers in previous seasons
Julie Andrijeski, violin
Jennifer Ashe
Becky Baxter, double harp
Cameron Beauchamp
Glenn Billingsley
Steven Bradshaw
Lydia Brotherton
Jonas Budris
Dashon Burton
Michael Collver, cornetto
Allen Combs
Pamela Dellal
Camilla Finlay, dancer
Brad Fugate
Philippe Gagné
Brian Giebler
Jolle Greenleaf
Anna Griffis, viola
Greg Ingles, trombone
Lydia Heather Knutson
Hank Heijink, lute
Ian Howell
Steven Lundahl, trombone
Simon Martyn-Ellis, vihuela & guitar
Owen McIntosh
David McSweeney
Eric Milnes, organ
Elena Mullins
Alexandra Opsahl, cornetto
Alexander Nishibun
Johanna Novom, violin
Gerrod Pagenkopf
Jessica Petrus
Ken Pierce, dancer
John Proft
Laura Pudwell
Mack Ramsey, trombone
Stefan Reed
Mark Rimple, lute
Erik Schmalz, trombone
David Thorne Scott
Jane Sheldon
Mark Sprinkle
Julia Steinbok
Daniel Stillman, dulcian
Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto
Peter Sykes
Ulysses Thomas
Paul Max Tipton
Daniela Tošić
Teresa Wakim
Emily Walhout, bass violin
Peter Walker
John Taylor Ward
Charles Weaver, lute & theorbo
Brenna Wells
Bob Wiemken, octave-bass dulcian
Zachary Wilder
Shari Alise Wilson
Darrick Yee
Tom Zajac
Daniel Zuluaga, vihuela & guitar
