Earlier this week, music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins hosted their 19th annual Carol Service with readings from supporters Bill Nighy, Anneka Rice and Tara Fitzgerald, and a special performance ...

Alison Balsom: Guest artist with The Philadelphia Orchestra. 1Who are you? I’m a trumpet soloist, visiting SPAC and the Philadelphia orchestra for the first time. 2Where are you from? I’m from ...

Planning a career in music, like planning to climb a mountain, is much easier said than done. Achieving success as a soloist is like achieving a successful ascent of Mount Everest. Many are called but ...

THE typical image of the trumpet is brash, loud and decidedly male. Yet it is not only Alison Balsom’s gender that means she has a good a chance as anyone at countering these stereotypes with her ...

Alison Balsom earned her current reputation as the world’s top classical trumpet player with half a dozen outstanding recordings and several years of celebrated performances with major orchestras ...

Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images. English trumpet player Alison Balsom, 34, accepted one of classical music’s top awards for a musician, Gramaphone’s Artist of the Year Award. The first British ...

Few people are lucky enough to fulfil their ultimate professional goal, let alone twice – yet this is the case for the award-winning classical trumpeter Alison Balsom. She performed at the Last Night ...

The only performances of Bach's Goldbergs which don't hit the spot for me tend to be those played on harpsichord. Piano will always be best, but I've enjoyed versions for harp, guitar, string ...

As the creative ferment of 21st-century performances of baroque music rises, the huge output of prolific composers like Handel, Vivaldi, and Purcell emerges as musical territory ripe for new ...

I want to share two classical albums that have really caught my ear and fancy. The first is by an English trumpet player named Alison Balsom, born in Royston, England in 1978. Balsom has recorded many ...

Alison Balsom: Guest artist with The Philadelphia Orchestra. 1Who are you? I’m a trumpet soloist, visiting SPAC and the Philadelphia orchestra for the first time. Any kind of passionate, inspired ...