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Alison Louise Balsom 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 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_BalsomAlison 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 Balsomyoutube.com
- Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) - Live in Londonyoutube.com
- Alison Balsom, 'Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb, 1st mov.' (Allegro)youtube.com
- Allegro, from Concerto in D for Trumpet and Organ by J S Bachyoutube.com
Alison Louise Balsom 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 has performed with some of the greatest conductors and orchestras of our time including Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Sir Roger Norrington, l’Orchestre de Paris, San Francisco and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York and London Philharmonic orchestras, and has appeared as soloist at the Last Night of the BBC Proms.
- Born in Hertfordshire. Alison Louise Balsom was born in Hertfordshire on October 7th 1978, and spent her early life in the town of Royston. Her father, Bill, was a builder, while her mother worked to place children with foster families.
- Early interest. She showed very early promise with the trumpet, taking lessons at school and playing in the Royston Town Band. Alison still returns to perform Christmas carols with the band every year.
- Alison Balsom at Guildhall. Things really started to pick up when she was accepted to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She later went on to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and at the Conservatoire de Paris with trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger.
- Alison Balsom's debut recordings. Balsom's recording career began in earnest in 2002 when she released Music For Trumpet and Organ on EMI Classics. It featured works by Bach, Sweelinck, Purcell and Messiaen, marking Balsom out as an adventurous programmer.
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...
The Sound of Alison Balsom (Album Sampler)151.9K Views- Behind the Scenes at the PPL Silver Clef Awards (Running "Borderline on Time")8.9K Views
- Behind the Scenes at the PPL Silver Clef Awards (Red Carpet)2.9K Views
- Alison Balsom | Atalanta HWV35 - Overture | Sound The Trumpet397.2K Views
- Alison Balsom | LISTEN to new album - Sound The Trumpet62K Views
- Alison Balsom | Sound The Trumpet | Eternal Source of Light Divine619.7K Views
- Alison Balsom | Sound The Trumpet | Album Out 15 OCT195.5K Views
Dec 17, 2020 · Who is Allison Balson? Allison Balson is an American singer, actress, and songwriter who is well recognized for her role of Nancy Oleson on the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ series from 1981 to 1983. Allison Balson: Age, Parents, Siblings, Nationality, Ethnicity She was born on November 19, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Following the popular and critical international success of her Haydn and Hummel concertos recording, Alison Balsom has recorded a programme of Italian Baroq...
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