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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 musicians on the international circuit today.
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Among the most exciting classical musicians of our time, Alison Balsom was first inspired by Dizzy Gillespie to become a virtuosic trumpet soloist. 'I've spent my whole life trying to show how versatile the trumpet can be' she says. 'It's only limited by your imagination.'
Mar 11, 2022 · March 11, 2022. Quiet City, released worldwide on 26 August 2022, is a significant departure from Balsom’s previous recordings. The album takes its title from Copland’s haunting work Quiet City, one of Balsom’s favourite works for trumpet, and one she has waited for the right moment to record since she performed it and won the Brass Final ...
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Apr 9, 2024 · Alison Balsom: ‘This is the most important piece written for the trumpet in 200 years’. From elephant blasts to spiritual jazz, Wynton Marsalis’s concerto is a history of the world in trumpet...
