Bob Wiemken – Blue Heron

Bob Wiemken is Artistic Co-Director of Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, with which he has performed worldwide, recorded extensively, built over 150 programs of Renaissance and early Baroque music, and commissioned new works for early winds and chorus. He has performed with numerous leading early music ensembles all over the world, and with Piffaro in festivals in North and South America and across Europe. He also teaches regularly at festivals and workshops throughout the country, directed the early music program at Temple University in Philadelphia for 20 years, and is currently Instructor Scholar for Early Woodwinds at Texas Tech University. He was recently awarded the prestigious Howard Mayer Brown Lifetime Achievement Award from Early Music America.

Blue Heron is engaged in the exploration of Renaissance and medieval vocal music, putting the study of original sources in the service of vivid live performance. Widely regarded as the finest ensemble of its type in North America, Blue Heron presents a subscription series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a catalog of exceptional recordings is available on the Blue Heron label. The ensemble’s accolades include the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, making Blue Heron the first group from outside Europe to receive the award; the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society; and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Touring engagements have taken the group across the United States, Canada, England, and Europe.

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