The award-winning classical trumpeter Alison Balsom took time out of her hectic schedule to pop into the Nordoff Robbins London Centre last week and check out their music therapy work. Alison, who ...

I want to share two classical albums that have really caught my ear and fancy. The first is by an English trumpet player named Alison Balsom, born in Royston, England in 1978. Balsom has recorded many ...

Planning a career in music, like planning to climb a mountain, is much easier said than done. Achieving success as a soloist is like achieving a successful ascent of Mount Everest. Many are called but ...

In the last 20 years the early music scene brought to attention a number of virtuosos who achieved the popularity once reserved for players specializing in 19th and early 20th Century repertory. One ...

Alison Balsom has cemented an international reputation as one of classical music’s great ambassadors and is ranked among the most distinctive and ground-breaking musicians on the international circuit ...

Collecting music written between the early 1970s and 2010, this NMC disc is an enthralling tribute to one of the greatest of contemporary composers. Oliver Knussen has never been prolific. And, in ...

Like Sarah Willis, Alison Balsom is another instrumentalist forging a highly successful career in a male-dominated field. Her EMI releases up to now have included arrangements and transcriptions; here ...

THE typical image of the trumpet is brash, loud and decidedly male. Yet it is not only Alison Balsom’s gender that means she has a good a chance as anyone at countering these stereotypes with her ...

Alison Balsom earned her current reputation as the world’s top classical trumpet player with half a dozen outstanding recordings and several years of celebrated performances with major orchestras ...

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 ...

BOSTON — “There’s no reason in this day and age someone shouldn’t do something because of gender,” said English trumpeter Alison Balsom at a fancy restaurant on Copley Square the day before her debut ...