Alex Warham & Tracey Brown

Alexander Warham began playing the cello at age 8 with his mother Christine Warham in Middlesbrough and then gained a scholarship to St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh where he studied with Ruth Beauchamp for 7 years. While at St Mary’s he was a finalist in the Schools Directors Recital prize, was awarded the Izzet Chamber Music prize and was overall winner for the Edinburgh Competition festival for 2006 before getting a scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. While there he studied with cellist Emma Ferrand and the Russian cellist Karine Georgian. He currently teaches the cello for Aberdeen City Music Service.

Tracey Brown was born in Barnsley and, at the age of 16, embarked on a foundation course at Leeds College of Music studying clarinet and piano. At the conclusion of the three year course, she was awarded the Micheal Grady Memorial Prize for Piano Accompaniment, the John Sheerer Prize for Woodwind Instruments and the Robert Tebb Trophy for Outstanding Performance in a Classical Style.

Tracey moved to Glasgow in 1984 to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. During her second year, she won the Governors’ Recital Prize for Woodwind and was runner-up in the John Ireland Chamber Music Competition on piano. In her postgraduate year at the RSAMD, she studied piano accompaniment with Jack Keaney.

After working as a Woodwind Teacher in Lanarkshire, Tracey did a Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Teaching at the Northern College in Aberdeen. She has since worked at Harlaw Academy, Aboyne Academy, Northfield Academy and Hazlehead Academy where she currently teaches part-time.