Scott Metcalfe

Ensemble director and instrumentalist Scott Metcalfe is one of North America's top authorities on music from the 15th through the 17th centuries. He has been the director of the Boston-based Renaissance ensemble Blue Heron since 1999 and has led that group in performances and recordings that combine innovative presentation and scholarly erudition. He has led several other ensembles as music director, and as a Baroque violinist, he has performed with leading early music ensembles, including Toronto's Tafelmusik, in both the U.S. and Canada. He also plays the medieval fiddle and the Baroque harp. Metcalfe has recorded with various ensembles of which he has been a member, and in the late 2010s with Blue Heron, he began a series of albums devoted to the secular music of Johannes Ockeghem. That series reached its second volume in 2024.