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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A taste of soul music from Cat Power; former Belle and Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell; Bach from trumpeter Alison Balsom; Stray Cats rockabilly bassist Lee Rocker; Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars; ...

Earlier this week, music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins hosted their 19th annual Carol Service with readings from supporters Bill Nighy, Anneka Rice and Tara Fitzgerald, and a special performance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why we care: You'd think classical composers would find inspiration in jazz trumpet, but apparently not, since the Hummel and Haydn trumpet concertos are still what you mostly hear at symphony ...

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Wednesday’s La Jolla Music Society SummerFest concert at St. James by-the-Sea was billed as a trumpet recital, featuring the British trumpet sensation Alison Balsom. But by the program’s second half, ...