Scott Metcalfe, Director (1996 - 2007)

Scott Metcalfe is a violinist and conductor whose repertoire ranges from 15th-century Franco-Flemish polyphony through 17th-century concerted vocal works to Bach's cantatas, motets, and passions, and beyond.

Besides Convivium Musicum, Metcalfe also directs the vocal ensemble Blue Heron. In recent seasons he has been invited to conduct Handel's Messiah with the Tudor Choir and Seattle Baroque, Bach's St. John Passion with the Dryden Ensemble in Princeton, New Jersey, Handel's opera Amadigi at Monadnock Music, and Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, also at Monadnock.

Metcalfe is concertmaster of the Trinity Consort in Portland, Oregon, under the direction of Eric Milnes, with whom he has enjoyed a long and fruitful collaboration. His career as a freelance violinist has taken him all over North America and Europe. He was a founding member of La Luna, an ensemble of two violins and continuo specializing in seventeenth-century music, and he played viola in the King's Noyse from 1987 until 2003. He played regularly with Tafelmusik (Toronto) from 1987 through 1998 and was a member of every Boston Early Music Festival orchestra from 1993 to 2003. He has recorded for harmonia mundi usa, Wildboar, ATMA Classique, Dorian, and various other labels.

Perhaps the only musician working in early music today to have published an article in the Annals of Botany, Metcalfe received a degree in biology from Brown University in 1985. In 2005 he completed a master's degree in historical performance practice at Harvard University.