Grant Herreid began his professional career in his native Portland, Ore, as a classical and jazz trumpet player. An early music specialist for many years, he performs frequently on early reeds, brass, strings, percussion and voice with Piffaro, Hesperus, ARTEK, Elm City Consort, Blue Heron, TENET, and other early music groups. A noted teacher and educator, he was the recipient of Early Music America’s Laurette Goldberg award for excellence in early music outreach and education. Grant appeared on Broadway playing hurdy gurdy, lute, theorbo, cittern, and percussion in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Richard III, starring Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry. On the faculty at Yale University, he directs the Yale Collegium Musicum, and is Artistic/Music Director of the Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP). Grant also directs the New York Continuo Collective in twice-yearly explorations of 17th century song. He recently performed at Boston Lyric Opera in the debut of, and was part of the creative team devising, a new pastiche of Vivaldi arias entitled The Seasons, with an English libretto by Sarah Ruhl, the recitatives of which he adapted to Vivaldi’s operatic recits. He devotes much of his time to exploring the esoteric and unwritten traditions of early (and late) Renaissance music.
