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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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