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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.
Following the popular and critical international success of her Haydn and Hummel concertos recording, Alison Balsom has recorded a programme of Italian Baroq...
ALISON BALSOM - Sound the Trumpet (Royal Music of Purcell & Handel) - YouTube. Warner Classics. 977K 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.
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...
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.
Mar 11, 2022 · Balsom describes it as “A true melancholy that only a certain style of trumpet playing can achieve.” The album Quiet City explores American music of the 20th century, composed in the era of the explosion of jazz.
Alison Balsom: 15 facts about the star trumpeter. Get to know the trumpeter who's been crowned Artist of the Year at the 'Oscars of classical music', the Gramophone Awards 2013, with our gallery of interesting facts.
Sep 14, 2022 · Alison Balsom on Quiet City. Featuring music by Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, Ives and Rodrigo via Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Alison Balsom's Quiet City explores what the British trumpet-player describes as the 'delicious melting of boundaries' between classical and jazz in mid-twentieth-century America, and featured as our Recording of the ...
