Alison Balsom plays the baroque trumpet. Picture: Classic FM As her new album suggests, Alison prefers the baroque trumpet for playing trumpet music by Handel, Purcell, Bach and Telemann – as that’s ...

Alison had decided very young – at the age of nine, when she first heard the Swedish trumpet soloist Hakan Hardenberger (with whom she later studied) – that she wanted to be a soloist, ...

Alison Balsom has recorded much of the core trumpet repertoire, and for her latest album she has moved on to Italian Baroque violin and oboe concertos, which she transcribed herself. She tells Classic ...

Balsom is a fierce advocate for music education, and early exposure to music-making. Aged seven, she started free trumpet lessons at her primary school in Hertfordshire, and between the ages of 15 to ...

Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images. English trumpet player Alison Balsom, 34, accepted one of classical music's top awards for a musician, Gramaphone's Artist of the Year Award. The first British ...

The trumpeter and musician Alison Balsom has performed with some of the world’s greatest orchestras. She talks about her latest album, Quiet City. Jack Hilton was a plasterer from Rochdale whose ...

Profile of Alison Balsom's support for charities including Nordoff Robbins and The Mayor of London's Fund for Young Musicians. We have 6 articles about Alison Balsom's philanthropy.

In the September issue of Gramophone, Editor Martin Cullingford meets with trumpeter Alison Balsom to talk about her new recording ‘Quiet City’, drawing on 20th century American works from the era ...

Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside explore the primacy of words and music in cultures across the world, with Kirsty Wark Show more Humankind’s relationship with music can be traced ...

Trumpeter Alison Balsom joins early music specialists Trevor Pinnock and Pinnock’s Players in bright arrangements of Baroque concertos, in this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic.

Trumpet player Alison Balsom and the campaign to revive the works of author Jack HiltonTrumpet player Alison Balsom and the campaign to revive the works of author Jack Hilton ...