Alex Greenbaum

Alex Greenbaum is an American cellist, a member of Hausmann Quartet and an Artist-in-Residence at San Diego State University, where he teaches cello and chamber music, as well as a member of Tarab Cello Ensemble and one of the principal cellists of The Knights (10). Born in New York, Greenbaum received his bachelor's degree from the Eastman School Of Music and master's – from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, New York at the City University Of New York. He also attended the Royal Northern College Of Music and the University Of Miami. Some of his principal teachers and mentors include Steven Doane, Marcy Rosen, Ross T. Harbaugh and André Emelianoff. A prolific chamber musician and new music advocate, Alex Greenbaum is a member of Tarab Cello Ensemble and frequently appeared with other notable contemporary ensembles, such as the FLUX Quartet and Newband. He is also a founding member of San Diego Baroque Soloists and had appeared with Bach Collegium San Diego, practicing and reciting early music as well. As a member of The Knights collective, Greenbaum has performed and recorded throughout the United States with Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Vera Beths, Christina Courtin and other notable soloists, and participating in Ravinia Festival, Tanglewood, Caramoor, Dresden and Ojai Festivals. In the past few years, Alex Greenbaum had appeared on stage as a featured soloist or guest collaborator at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall (where The Knights premiered Osvaldo Golijov's Pasión), Rockwood Music Hall, Tonic (2), the Brooklyn Lyceum Of Illicit Musicology, and other prestigious New York venues. Greenbaum had been also active in Mexico, where he had a teaching residency in Tijuana and played in Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes with Elizabeth Brown (5), a fellow member of Tarab Cello Ensemble. Since 2009, Alex has performed and taught at the Northern Lights Music Festival in Ajijic, Jalisco.