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Updated 2/11/2022

Blue Heron

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

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 its “expressive intensity.” The ensemble ranges over a wide repertoire from plainchant to new music, with particular specialties in 15th-century Franco-Flemish polyphony and early 16th-century English sacred music, and is committed to vivid live performance informed by the study of original source materials and historical performance practices. Blue Heron offers a catalog of twelve recordings and is the first group outside of Europe to receive the Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (2018). Blue Heron is Renaissance vocal music for the 21st century. For more information and photos, go to www.bluheron.org

Find Me

Kathleen Brittan
Job Title: Executive Director
Phone: 617-960-7956
Address:
950 Watertown Street
Suite 8
West Newton, MA 02465

Social Media:

Additional Content:

  • Bandcamp Site

    Listen to tracks from any of Blue Heron's CDs here

  • YouTube

    Additional listening available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpigqYCqEgQmPztPjlhn2lg

  • About the Ockeghem@600 Project

    Blue Heron's Ockeghem@600 project -- to perform all the works of Ockeghem over the next few years (through roughly 2020) -- is explained.

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

1999

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

1999

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Music - Chamber

Additional Disciplines:

  • Music - Choral

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Virtual Events
Seasons Active: spring, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 10

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens

Languages Available:

  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish

Geographic Reach:

  • National

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (2018)
  • Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society (2015)
  • Massachusetts Cultural Council grants for 10+ years, for general organzational support. Choral Arts New England grants for Peterhouse performance and recording projects.

Awards

Awards:

  • Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (2018)
  • Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society (2015)
  • Massachusetts Cultural Council grants for 10+ years, for general organzational support. Choral Arts New England grants for Peterhouse performance and recording projects.

Artist Info

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • A music stand, and an appropriate number of chairs.

Fee Range:

$7,000 - $12,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

6

Maximum Number of Performers:

15

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • A music stand, and an appropriate number of chairs.

Fee Range:

$7,000 - $12,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

6

Maximum Number of Performers:

15