San Diego Baroque is a collaborative ensemble made up some of the area’s finest early music specialists. Each artist is an accomplished soloist in their own right and has performed extensively in San Diego and worldwide, with groups such as the Academy of Ancient Music, Mainly Mozart, Bach Collegium San Diego, The Knights and the Hausmann Quartet. The ensemble was created because of the members' enthusiasm and expertise in Baroque music, and the group has collaborated with local choirs, actors, and presented concerts and visited schools throughout San Diego county.
Born in New York, cellist Alex Greenbaum enjoys a diverse and adventurous musical life. As a member of the Hausmann Quartet he is an Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer at San Diego State University, where he teaches cello and chamber music. As a long-time member of The Knights chamber orchestra he has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe, and appeared at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Caramoor, Dresden, Ojai, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Salzburg and recently returned to Vienna's Musikverein and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He has recorded for Ancalagon, Arc, Bridge, Canary Classics, Cantaloupe, In a Circle, Koch, Naxos, Warner Classics and Sony records. His varied interests have led to collaborations with dance companies, recordings for film, television and commercials, studies of early music and performances throughout Mexico. He was previously a member of the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Tarab Cello Ensemble, and appeared with the FLUX Quartet, Newband and many other contemporary music ensembles. Alex's current affiliations include Art of Élan, Bach Collegium San Diego, San Diego Baroque, San Diego New Music and he is Co-Director of Chamber Music at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla. He lives in San Diego.
Violinist Isaac Allen is a founding member of the award winning Hausmann Quartet. Mr. Allen attended Manhattan School of Music and received his Undergraduate Diploma from The Longy School of Music, Masters of Music in Chamber Music Performance from Kent State University and an Artist Diploma from San Diego State University. Mr. Allen has studied violin with Ivan Chan, Laura Bossert, Terry King, Patinka Kopek and chamber music with Robert Mann, Earl Carlyss, Silvia Rosenberg and members of the Juilliard, Orion, Vermeer, Emerson, Alexander, Miami and Alban Berg String Quartets. Mr. Allen has performed throughout Canada, the U.S., China and Taiwan performing frequently at arts hubs such as Lincoln Center and the Chicago Cultural Center. With a strong dedication to teaching and coaching chamber music, Mr. Allen has given master classes throughout the United States and served as a violin instructor and chamber music coach at various schools, universities and festivals including San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, Brookline Music School, Villa Musica, The San Diego Chamber Music Workshop and the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar.
An active leader in the arts, Isaac Allen has served as both the President of ASTA San Diego and an Artistic Director of the Hausmann Chamber Music Program, a new summer festival and semester program for chamber music in San Diego. Aside from HCMP’s festival, other festival appearances have included, La Jolla SummerFest, Music@Menlo, Aspen, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Ojai and the Blossom music festival. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Lydia Artymiw, Jeremy Denk, Paul Neubauer, Toby Appel, Steven Ansel, Ronald Thomas, Paul Katz and the Alexander and Borromeo String Quartets.
Alison J. Luedecke has performed across the US, as well as in Canada and Europe. She is currently Artist Teacher of Organ and Harpsichord and University Organist for the University of Redlands. Alison has performed across the US in churches and performing arts centers, in Germany, Mexico and most notably given two concerts at Notre Dame de Paris, France. She is a founding member of the Millennia Consort, a premiere “organ plus” brass and percussion ensemble presenting unique chamber music offerings. In addition she has performed and presented workshop and masterclasses at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, the Hymn Society, and the Organ Historical Society. Her church ministry has included positions as Organist at St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California and at the cathedral and parish level and as Director of Liturgical Music for the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Rochester, New York, and San Diego. She completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music under David Craighead.
Violist Andrew Waid is an exciting and versatile performer on both modern and Baroque instruments. Since 2016, Andrew has lived in San Diego where, in addition to San Diego Baroque, he performs with the stellar local early music group Bach Collegium San Diego, also serving as its music librarian, and coordinator/programmer of its Bach at Noon concert series. He also frequently makes his way to Los Angeles where he enthusiastically joins Tesserae Baroque as its principal violist, and also Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra as tenured co-principal violist. Outside of the realm of baroque music, Andrew can sometimes be found as a pit musician at the Old Globe Theater, in contemporary music projects with Renga and Art of Elan, and every summer since 2017, as principal viola for Opera Neo Festival Orchestra. An engaging and creative teacher, Andrew is on the faculty of the String Academy at San Diego State University where he leads group and private classes. He holds a DMA from Boston University (2015) and when not playing or teaching, he spends time with his wife and three children and their rescued desert tortoise.