Joyce Alper has played baroque oboe with the Boston Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Cecilia, Abendmusik, Cambridge Bach Ensemble, Schola Cantorum of Boston, St. Botolph's Town Bande, Longy Oboe Band, Harvard University Baroque Orchestra, Hartford Philharmonic Society, Genesee Baroque Players, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and the New Trinity Baroque. She has recently returned to Boston after nine years in Texas, where she played with the Dallas Bach Society, Texas Baroque Ensemble, Fort Worth Early Music, Denton Bach Society, Orchestra of New Spain, La Bande Ancienne, Concerto Antico, Incarnation Baroque Orchestra, Texas Early Music Project, Austin Handel-Haydn Society, Orchestra of St. David's, Texas Bach Collegium, La Folia, and Ars Lyrica Houston.

She has taught baroque oboe at the University of North Texas for seven years and has given master classes and workshops at Louisiana State University, University of Houston, Texas Tech University, and the Texas Early Music Festival. In addition, she was the director of school programs for the Dallas Bach Society for three years, bringing early music and dance programs into Dallas public schools. In January, 2004, she will give a gallery talk about eighteenth century oboes at the musical instrument collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

As a recipient of a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund, Ms. Alper studied with Ku Ebbinge at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands. She has also studied baroque oboe with Stephen Hammer, Sand Dalton, and Washington McLain.