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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “You are absolutely alone when you stand on the edge of the stage. It’s a bit like being on your deathbed: even ...

Even without the fake tan, bare long legs and Alice Temperley sequined minidress which accentuated her shapely figure, Alison Balsom would always stand out in a crowd. The 30-year-old blonde possesses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trumpeter Alison Balsom is a great ambassador for the instrument she loves. She spoke to Yvette Huddleston ahead of her UK tour. The trumpet, especially in this part of the world, tends to be most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trumpets are for lovers. Or so it would seem from the packaging of Alison Balsom's intimately cozy accounts of four 18th century concertos with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Dressed in a low ...

ALISON Balsom’s career really took off last year when she became the triumphant trumpeter of London The Globe’s Gabriel, featuring the music of Handel and Purcell, a project which she’d suggested, and ...