What is Alison Balsom?
[[File:Alison Balsom.jpg|200px|right|thumb]] {{No footnotes|date=November 2024}} '''Alison Balsom''' (born 7 October 1978, [[Hertfordshire]]) is an [[England|English]] [[trumpet]]er. She grew up in [[Royston]], [[Hertfordshire]] in [[England]]. She studied the trumpet at the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]], the [[Paris Conservatory]], and also with [[Håkan Hardenberger]]. She is a [[BBC]] Radio 3 New Generation Artist. She has made three CD albums with EMI Classics and has been described by many as the best trumpeter of the young generation. ==Discography== *Alison Balsom: ''Music for Trumpet and Organ'' (EMI Classics Debut, 2002) *Alison Balsom & Crispian Steele-Perkins: ''The Fam'd Italian Masters'' ([[Hyperion Records|Hyperion]], 2003) *Alison Balsom: ''Bach works for Trumpet'' (EMI Classics, 2005) *Alison Balsom: ''Caprice'' (EMI Classics, 2006) *Alison Balsom: ''Haydn and Hummel Trumpet Concertos'' (EMI Classics, 2008) *Alison Balsom: ''Italian Concertos'' ([[EMI Classics]], 2010) The BBC Music Magazine cover disc for December 2010 has: Haydn & Hummel concertos (not the 2008 EMI recordings); Albinoni's Oboe Concerto Op. 9 No. 2, transcribed for trumpet; and Vivaldi's Violin Concerto Op. 3 No. 9, arranged for trumpet and instrumental trio. ==Awards== *[[Concerto]] finalist in the BBC Young Musicians Competition, 1998 *Feeling Musique Prize for quality of sound in the 4th Maurice André International Trumpet Competition. *Young British Performer at the Classical [[BRIT Awards|Brit Awards]], 2006 *Classic FM Listeners' Choice Award, 2006 ==Other websites== *[http://www.alisonbalsom.com Alison Balsom Official website] *[http://www.alisonbalsomcaprice.com Caprice album microsite] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070502014901/http://www.alisonbalsomcaprice.com/ |date=2007-05-02 }} *[http://www.myspace.com/alisonbalsom Alison Balsom on MySpace] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Balsom, Alison}} [[Category:British trumpeters]] [[Category:1978 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Cate