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Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes, OBE (born 7 October 1978) is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, and music educator. Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was a soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009.
Alison Balsom is a passionate advocate of the importance of music education. She studied trumpet at the Paris Conservatoire, and with Håkan Hardenberger. She also studied, and is now an honorary fellow at, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Balsom holds honorary doctorates from Leicester University and Anglia Ruskin Univeristy.
Described as “…simply divine” by Sunday Telegraph, Alison Balsom’s life in music has been much more than as a virtuoso and ambassador for her instrument. Her outstanding talent and approach to trumpet repertoire have been critically acclaimed, and she has engaged herself more widely in creating new formats and pathways for her creative ...
Following the popular and critical international success of her Haydn and Hummel concertos recording, Alison Balsom has recorded a programme of Italian Baroq...
Handel: Sinfonia (Amidigi di Gaula, Act 3) (first time on CD) Among the most exciting classical musicians of our time, Alison Balsom was first inspired by Dizzy Gillespie to become a virtuosic...
Oct 6, 2012 · ALISON BALSOM - Sound the Trumpet (Royal Music of Purcell & Handel) - YouTube. Warner Classics. 962K subscribers. Subscribed. 30K. 4.9M views 11 years ago. ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE:...
Alison Balsom is one of the best trumpet soloists of her generation, with a defiantly forward-looking musical philosophy. Alison practised on a trumpet belonging to her uncle, playing in both the National Youth Orchestra and the pan-European Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
“ She is an astonishing virtuosa ” — The Times, July 2013. Described as “…simply divine” by the Sunday Telegraph, Alison Balsom has been awarded an OBE for Services to Music, and has dedicated her career to broadening the artistic horizons of the trumpet.
Star trumpeter Alison Balsom adds her first recital with piano to her rich Warner Classics catalogue. Recorded live at St George’s, Bristol, she and Tom Poster, her long-standing recital partner, explore fascinating works from the 20th century, by composers such as Enescu, Hindemith, Martinů, Françaix, Bernstein and Peter Maxwell Davies.
Aug 5, 2022 · Alison Balsom, renowned trumpeter and one of the most successful soloists in history, shares insights into her musical odyssey in this comprehensive interview. Beginning with her early exposure to the trumpet at the age of seven, Balsom traces the pivotal moments and influences that shaped her artistic identity.
