Scott Metcalfe
Scott Metcalfe, music director of Blue Heron, has been invited to serve as guest director by Emmanuel Music, Monadnock Music, The Tudor Choir and Seattle Baroque, Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Vancouver, BC), Quire Cleveland, and the Dryden Ensemble (Princeton, NJ), in works by Monteverdi, Biber, Buxtehude, Handel, Bach, and others. In January 2010 he led the Green Mountain Project in an all-star 400th-anniversary performance of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers in New York City, which the New York Times called "quite simply terrific" and New York Magazine named one of the Top Ten Classical Music Events of 2010; the production was revived last January before a standing-room only audience and is set to become an annual event, including performances in Boston.
A baroque violinist as well as a conductor, Metcalfe is a member of Cleveland's Les Délices (dir. Debra Nagy) and a participant in the early music scenes of both Boston and Montreal. He was a founding member of the 17th-century ensemble La Luna and of the Renaissance violin band The King's Noyse, and from 1996 through 2007 he conducted the Renaissance choir Convivium Musicum. When not playing and directing, Metcalfe keeps busy writing, teaching, translating, and editing. He is at work on a new edition of the songs of Gilles Binchois, in collaboration with Sean Gallagher, and is a lecturer in choral repertoire and performance practice at Boston University. Metcalfe received a bachelor's degree in 1985 from Brown University, where he majored in biology (he is perhaps the only violinist working in early music to have published an article in the Annals of Botany), and in 2005 he completed a master's degree in historical performance practice at Harvard. He lives in Watertown with his family and enjoys biking, hiking, and all sorts of outdoor recreation.