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.
Pierre Joubert studied music at the Birmingham Conservatoire and graduated with an A.B.S.M. Diploma on the violin. He was also awarded the Head of Schools Prize for his work in the field of chamber music. Upon graduating, he joined the BBC Midland Radio Orchestra and from 1982 to 1992 held the position of Assistant Concertmaster of the English String Orchestra. During his time with the E.S.O. he played in concerts in the U.K., Europe, recorded extensively and performed in a major tour of the U.S.A. conducted by Sir Yehudi Menuhin.. He also worked with Sir Michael Tippett in a BBC television program featuring the composer .
An interest in Baroque music led to the study of the Baroque violin and in 1988 he joined the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Christopher Hogwood. As a regular member of the A.A.M. he has given concerts in all of the main concert halls of Europe, Japan, South America and the U.S.A. and worked with Christopher Hogwood, Robert Levin, Andrew Manze, Paul Goodwin and Richard Egarr. He has played on a large number of commercial recordings for Decca Records and Harmonia Mundi, including concertos and orchestral works by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, Symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven, concertos by Mozart, and operas by Handel, Haydn and Mozart. In 1994, he joined the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of principal conductors Sir Simon Rattle and Franz Bruggen. He has played with the orchestra in all the major cities of Europe along with regular appearances at the Lincoln Center. Highlights have included a residency at the Salzburg Festival with Sir Simon Rattle, a U.S. tour with Cecilia Bartoli including Carnegie Hall, and concerts, radio and T.V. broadcasts with Franz Bruggen, GustavLeonhardt, William Christie, and Sir Charles Mackerras.
Since moving to San Diego, he has lectured in music history and performance at the University of California San Diego and freelanced as a violinist in Los Angeles and San Diego.
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.