Mission
Blue Heron, the first non-European ensemble to win the Gramophone Classical Music award for Early Music, is engaged in exploration of the vocal music of the 14th to 16th centuries. It aims to perform at the highest possible level of expressive intensity, in order to entertain, move, uplift and transform its audiences. Combining a commitment to vivid live performances with the study of original source materials and historical performance practices, the group ranges over a wide and fascinating repertoire, and aspires to a deeply informed understanding of the past. Blue Heron offers performances on its own Cambridge-based series and on touring engagements, as well as top-quality recordings, and educational programs (e.g. workshops), including residencies at local universities.
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The vocal ensemble Blue Heron has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. Combining a commitment to vivid live performance with the study of original source materials and historical performance practices, Blue Heron ranges over a wide repertoire, including 15th-century English and Franco-Flemish polyphony, Spanish music between 1500 and 1600, and neglected early 16th-century English music, especially the unique repertory of the Peterhouse partbooks, copied c. 1540 for Canterbury Cathedral. The ensemble also regularly performs earlier and later music, from a concert version of Guillaume de Machaut’s Remede de Fortune to a collaboration with A Far Cry featuring Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Le Cantique des Cantiques for twelve voices by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (composed in 1952), and Devran (2017) by Boston’s Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol.
Ruling year
2003
Executive Director
Ms. Kathleen Brittan
Artistic Director
Scott Metcalfe
Main address
950 Watertown St Suite 8
West Newton, MA 02465 USA
EIN
04-3522239
NTEE code
Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles (A6C)
Singing Choral (A6B)
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Self-Presented Concerts
Blue Heron offers concerts in Cambridge on a home subscription series, and presents a select few others in the region, as well. The concerts ordinarily consist of materials not presented previously, and involving much research, experimentation, and other preparatory work.
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Awards
Noah Greenberg Award 2015
American Musicological Association
Bestenliste 2020
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik
Classical Music Award for Early Music 2018
Grammophone
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Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music 2018
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Blue Heron
Board of directorsas of 11/04/2022
Mr. Peter Belknap
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