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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.
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.
Constantly exploring the boundaries of her instrument, she has had numerous concertos written for her including World Premieres of Thea Musgrave’s Trumpet Concerto, Qigang-Chen’s Joie Eternelle and Guy Barker’s Lanterne of Light at the BBC Proms, and in April 2024 will give the UK and German Premieres of Wynton Marsalis’ Trumpet ...
Sep 19, 2012 · She is a ...more. ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.smarturl.it/Balsom_SoundTrumpetAlison Balsom is the world's preeminent female classical trumpeter. She is a unique and indep...
Mar 11, 2022 · Alison Balsom gives UK premiere of new Wynton Marsalis trumpet concerto. Four performances of the trumpet concerto with the LSO under Sir Antonio Pappano will begin with the UK première at the Barbican on April 11th. This will be followed by a performance in Bristol on 12th, and then in Germany - Cologne and Hamburg - later in April.
662K views 14 years ago. Alison Balsom plays "Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat" at the Classical Brit Awards, programmes dated 19th May 2009. This is produced solely to promote Alison and...
