Andrew Waid

Violist Andrew Waid is an exciting and versatile performer on both modern and baroque instruments. Since 2016, Waid has lived in San Diego where he performs with the stellar local early music group Bach Collegium San Diego, also serving as music librarian and programmer of BCSD’s Bach at Noon series. He has been a core member of San Diego Baroque since 2016, helping program and present dozens of instrumental and vocal concerts all over the city. Further from home, Waid frequently makes his way to Los Angeles in a wide range of projects with both Tesserae Baroque and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. Outside of the realm of baroque music, Waid enjoys collaborating in opera and stage productions of all types: he has been principal viola at Opera Neo since 2017, including for a two-week residency in Budapest, Hungary in summer 2022, and occasionally has appeared at the Old Globe Theater. An engaging and creative teacher, Waid is on the faculty of the String Academy at San Diego State University.