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English trumpet player (b1978)
Alison Balsom
Balsom recording at Abbey Road in 2013
Birth name Alison Louise Balsom Born (1978-10-07 ) 7 October 1978 (age 45 ) Hitchin , EnglandGenres Classical Occupation(s ) Musician, educator Instrument(s ) Trumpet Years active 2001–present Labels
Hyperion
Warner Classics
Spouse(s )
(m. 2017) Website alisonbalsom
Musical artist
Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes , OBE trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, and music educator. Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards , and was a soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009. She was the artistic director of the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival .
Early life and education
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Balsom attended Tannery Drift First School in Royston, Hertfordshire , where she started taking trumpet lessons from the age of seven, followed by Greneway Middle School and Meridian School , whilst also playing in the Royston Town Band from ages 8 to 15.[1] [2] [3] A-levels at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge .[4]
Playing in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from ages 15 to 18, Balsom studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama ,[5] Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama , and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Håkan Hardenberger .[5] [2]
Career
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Balsom has been a professional solo classical trumpeter since 2001. She is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist , during which time she performed much of the major concerto repertoire for solo trumpet and orchestra with all of the BBC Orchestras,[6] EMI Classics in 2002. In 2005, she released her second disc, Bach Works for Trumpet , as part of a contract with EMI Classics. In 2006, Balsom won 'Young British Classical Performer' at the Classical BRIT Awards and was awarded the 'Classic FM Listeners' Choice Award' at the Classic FM Gramophone Awards . She won 'Female Artist of the Year' at the 2009 and 2011 Classical BRIT Awards.
Her third album (the second disc in the EMI contract), Caprice , was released in September 2006, and her Italian Concertos disc was on the list of New York Times albums of the year. Balsom was a soloist at the 2009 Last Night of the Proms , performing, among other pieces, Haydn 's Trumpet Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a jazz arrangement of George Gershwin 's "They Can't Take That Away from Me " with mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly .
Balsom in 2011
In collaboration with playwright Samuel Adamson , Balsom devised Gabriel , a play using the music of The Fairy-Queen Henry Purcell and George-Frideric Handel , which she performed with actors and The English Concert as part of the 2013 summer season at Shakespeare's Globe .[7]
Balsom was the principal trumpet of the London Chamber Orchestra .[8] Bach C trumpet.[citation needed About her natural trumpet playing, Balsom said in 2014, "I have been playing since I was in the 3rd year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama – so since I was 21. I just fell in love with this instrument as soon as I started learning it, as it makes total sense of the whole Baroque era in terms of phrasing, colour and the difference in keys and certain notes of the scale, which you lose on a modern instrument such as the piccolo trumpet. I play various different makes but my favourite is by Egger of Switzerland."[9]
She is a Visiting Professor of Trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama .[10]
She gave the world premiere of Qigang Chen's Joie éternelle for solo trumpet and orchestra at the 2014 BBC Proms ,[11] Guy Barker's Lanterne of Light trumpet concerto at the 2015 BBC Proms. In addition to 14 years of solo appearances at the Proms, Balsom has also appeared at the iTunes Festival, Latitude Festival, Henley Festival, Un Violon Sur le Sable, France and Wege durch das Land, Germany.
In 2014 Balsom was chosen as one of 27 artists, including Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Florence Welch, and Sam Smith, to feature in one of BBC Music 's first broadcasts, an extravagant cover of the 1966 Beach Boys classic, "God Only Knows ", under the name of The Impossible Orchestra. This track marked a first-time collaboration between the Warner, Sony and Universal Music labels.[12]
She appeared on BBC Radio 4 ’s long-running Desert Island Discs Bach 's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major , her favourite book The Complete Scores of Bach , and her luxury item a trumpet.[13]
Television presenter
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In 2014, she returned to BBC Young Musician of the Year as a presenter of the category finals and semi-final of the competition alongside Miloš Karadaglić .[14] Clemency Burton-Hill .[15]
Festival director
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Balsom succeeded Richard Rodney Bennett as President of Deal, Kent Festival in 2015. She was artistic director of the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival ,[16] [17] [18]
Honours and awards
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Balsom was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music.[19]
She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Leicester (2015) [20] Anglia Ruskin University , and is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama .
Personal life
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She has a son with the English conductor Edward Gardner .[21] Sam Mendes . Their daughter was born in September 2017. [22]
Discography
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Music for Trumpet and Organ (EMI Classics Debut, 2002)
The Fam'd Italian Masters (Hyperion , 2003) - With Crispian Steele-Perkins
Bach works for Trumpet (EMI Classics, 2005)
Caprice (EMI Classics, 2006)
Haydn and Hummel Trumpet Concertos (EMI Classics, 2008)
Italian Concertos (EMI Classics, 2010)
Haydn and Hummel concertos / Albinoni's Oboe Concerto Op. 9 No. 2 , transcribed for trumpet / Vivaldi's Violin Concerto Op. 3 No. 9 , arranged for trumpet and instrumental trio (BBC Music Magazine , 2010)
Seraph: Trumpet Concertos by Arutiunian, MacMillan, and Zimmerman (EMI Classics, 2012)
Alison Balsom (EMI Classics, 2012)
Sound the Trumpet: Royal Music of Purcell and Handel, also marketed as; Kings & Queens (EMI Classics, 2012), and Sound the Trumpet-Gabriel Edition (Warner Classics, 2013)
Paris (Warner Classics, 2014)
Légende (Warner Classics, 2016)
Jubilo (Warner Classics, 2016) - Christmas Album including Fasch, Bach, Torelli and Corelli concerti
Royal Fireworks (Warner Classics, 2019)
Magic Trumpet (Warner Classics, 2020)
Quiet City (Warner Classics, 2022)
Awards
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Artist of the Year, Gramophone Classical Music Awards, 2013[23]
Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Award, 2014
Best Female Artist, Classical BRIT Awards , 2009,[24] [25]
Classic FM Listeners' Choice Award, Classic FM Gramophone Award 2006
Young British Performer, Classical BRIT Awards, 2006
Feeling Musique Prize for quality of sound in the 4th Maurice André International Trumpet Competition
Concerto finalist in the BBC Young Musicians Competition , 1998
Equipment
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Trumpet: Schilke models E3L E-flat/D trumpet, E3L-4 E-flat trumpet, G1L G/F trumpet, P7-4 B-flat/A piccolo trumpet, S22CHD C trumpet; mouthpiece: Schilke 6A4a.[26]
References
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^ a b "Alison Balsom: 15 facts about the star trumpeter" . Classic FM. Retrieved 15 April 2020 .
^ "Virtuoso Alison goes back to her roots" . Royston Crow . 10 September 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2020 .[permanent dead link
^ "Interview: Alison Balsom" . Cambridge Corn Exchange . 29 November 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2020 .
^ a b Cummings, Robert. "Alison Balsom" . allmusic. Retrieved 15 April 2020 .
^ "New Generation Artists – Former Artists" . BBC Radio 3 website
^ Halliburton, Rachel (22 July 2013). "Gabriel" . Time Out . Retrieved 17 August 2013 .
^ Jeal, Erica (7 October 2010). "Alison Balsom: The top brass" . The Guardian . London.
^ Hughes, Mark (26 August 2014). "Q&A with Alison Balsom and Houston Symphony Principal Trumpet Mark Hughes" . houstonsymphonyblog.org . Retrieved 28 September 2015 .
^ "Department of Wind, Brass and Percussion" . Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Retrieved 28 July 2011 .
^ "BBC – Proms – Prom 2 Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky & Liszt 2014" . bbc.co.uk . 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014 .
^ "BBC Music launches with special reworking of God Only Knows" . BBC Media Centre . 22 October 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2016 .
^ "Desert Island Discs: Alison Balsom" . BBC Online . Retrieved 2 October 2015 .
^ "Alison Balsom and Miloš Karadaglić to present BBC Young Musician category finals and semi-final" . BBC Media Centre. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014 .
^ "Presenters Clemency Burton-Hill & Alison Balsom discussing the talented 2016 musicians – Behind the scenes of BBC Young Musician 2016" . BBC Four . March 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016 .
^ Morrison, Richard (16 March 2018). "Alison Balsom: 'We have a music crisis in schools. Everyone needs to speak out' The Times . ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 21 June 2019 .
^ Pound, Jeremy (15 December 2017). "Alison Balsom named as new Cheltenham Music Festival boss" . Classical-Music.com . Retrieved 21 June 2019 .
^ "Jules Buckley" . Cheltenham Festivals . Retrieved 2 August 2019 .
^ "No. 61608" . The London Gazette
^ "Leaders and pioneers to be honoured by University of Leicester" . University of Leicester news page . 13 July 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2022 .
^ Alan Franks (11 September 2009). "Alison Balsom: 'don't compare me to Katherine Jenkins' The Times . Retrieved 14 April 2020 .
^ "Sam Mendes's Directorial Discoveries" . New Yorker . Retrieved 9 December 2019 .
^ Dex, Robert (18 September 2013). "Trumpeter Alison Balsom named first female artist of the year at Gramophone Classical Music Awards" The Independent Archived from the original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2015 .
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"Classical Brit for UK trumpeter" . BBC News . 15 May 2009. Archived from the original on 17 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009 .
^ "Alison Balsom wins Female Artist" . 11 September 2011. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011 .
^ "Featured Artists: Alison Balsom" . www.schilkemusic.com . Retrieved 19 December 2016 .
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