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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.
2013 Gramophone Artist of the Year, three time winner at the Classic BRITs and also three time winner at the Echo Klassik Awards, Alison Balsom OBE has cemented an international reputation as one of classical music’s great ambassadors and is ranked amongst the most distinctive and ground-breaking mu.
Alison Balsom - Italian Concertos. Following the popular and critical international success of her Haydn and Hummel concertos recording, Alison Balsom has recorded a programme of Italian...
Oct 6, 2012 · 977K subscribers. Subscribed. 30K. 4.9M views 11 years ago. ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE: http://smarturl.it/soundtrumpet In the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, Alison Balsom celebrates...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Alison Balsom was born on 7 October 1978 in Royston, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Romeo & Juliet (2013), BBC Music: God Only Knows (2014) and Handel - The Philanthropist (2020). She has been married to Sam Mendes since 26 January 2017. They have one child.
Nov 22, 2009 · Alison Balsom (1978) is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer and music educator. Recorded live on the last night of the BBC Proms, September 12th, ...