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 ...

Top trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom joins a team of researchers and musicians, with findings that could mean full orchestral music getting back to stages sooner. A new COVID-19 study from the ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The Classical Brit Awards are to classical music in Great Britain what the Grammy Awards are to music here in America. Yet unlike the Grammys, where the winners of lower-profile ...

Aware of her novelty value as ‘a blonde girl playing the trumpet’, Alison Balsom’s soloist training has taught her always to look forward and to make concerts work even when everything goes wrong. No ...

From elephant blasts to spiritual jazz, Wynton Marsalis’s concerto is a history of the world in trumpet form. As she prepares to give the UK premiere, Balsom describes the thrill of playing it When I ...

Classical trumpeter Alison Balsom is to retire from performing after one final concert at the Last Night Of The Proms. The musician, who is married to Skyfall director Sir Sam Mendes, confirmed this ...

Multi award-winning trumpet soloist, artistic director and music education ambassador, Alison Balsom, speaks exclusively to Classic FM. Hear the full interview this Sunday 25 September at 9pm.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Classical trumpeter Alison Balsom is to retire from performing after one final concert at the Last Night Of The Proms. The ...