Metcalfe has already done important research work on the Leuven Chansonnier, including transcriptions and editions of the music and poetic texts of the unique compositions for recordings by Sollazzo Ensemble and Ensemble Leones. He is also the author of numerous program and recording notes, and also of scholarly articles in the Journal of the Alamire Foundation. This fall he will work in Leuven on a new critical edition of the chansons of Gilles Binchois. Metcalfe’s research into the musical heritage of the Low Countries is perfectly aligned with the objectives of the Alamire Foundation, as well as with the current SBR/FWO project New Perspectives on Medieval and Renaissance Courtly Song.

Besides his musicological work, Scott Metcalfe is widely recognized as one of North America’s leading performers of music from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and beyond, as artistic director of the Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron, which he co-founded in 1999. One of the ensemble’s particular specialties is fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish polyphony, and between 2015 and 2023 Blue Heron celebrated the circa-600th birthday of Johannes Ockeghem by performing his complete works in a multi-season project entitled Okeghem@600 and recording all of his songs.

For more information about Scott Metcalfe's projects and his ensemble, please visit the website of Blue Heron. On alamire.tv, he shares his expertise in the series Leuven Chansonnier in Perspective, where he explores the structural elements of chansons, the challenges of transcription, and performance.