Alexander Warenberg
Cello
Alexander Warenberg (1998) started playing the cello when he was 5 years old. From age eight, he received lessons from Monique Bartels. From 2016 to 2019, Alexander studied with Frans Helmerson at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, after which he continued his studies with the same professor at the Kronberg Academy. He is currently studying at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium with Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling.
Alexander has won the first prize at the Britten Cello Competition and the national competition of the Stichting Jong Muziektalent Nederland (‘Dutch Foundation for Young Musical Talent’). In 2016, he won the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the National Cello Competition. He also won the first prize at the international Antonio Janigro Cello Competition in Croatia.
In 2019, Alexander Warenberg released his first album ‘Sonatas’ under the label TRPTK, with music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. In 2021, Alexander was the recipient of the Grachtenfestival Prize.
Alexander plays an Alessandro D’Espine cello, previously owned by Paul Tortelier, on loan from a member of the Stretton Foundation.