Grant Herreid
director, lute, cittern
Grant Herreid is on the faculty at Yale University, he leads the Yale Collegium Musicum and the Yale Baroque Opera Project. He also directs the New York Continuo Collective, and devotes much of his time to exploring the unwritten traditions of early music with the ensembles Ex Umbris and Ensemble Viscera, enterprises profoundly affected by the loss of his dear friends, long-time collaborator Tom Zajac, and teacher and colleague Pat O’Brien.
Grant performs frequently on early reeds, brass, strings and voice with Piffaro, Hesperus, and many other early music groups around the country. On the faculty at Yale University, he directs their Collegium Musicum and the Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP). Grant also directs the New York Continuo Collective. A noted teacher and educator, he is a familiar presence at many summer workshops, and 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. He devotes much of his time to exploring the esoteric unwritten traditions of early music with the ensembles Ex Umbris and Ensemble Viscera, enterprises profoundly affected by the loss of his dear friends, long-time collaborator Tom Zajac and teacher and colleague Pat O’Brien.