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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...