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.

When the Scottish composer James MacMillan wrote Seraph for Alison Balsom, it was more than a compliment – it was a description. For Balsom, a trumpeter with a cascade of blond hair, looks and sounds ...

Classical trumpeter Alison Balsom OBE has opened up about her first date with husband and Skyfall director Sir Sam Mendes, who she says took her to a Quentin Tarantino film to woo her. The 46-year-old ...

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 ...

Few people are lucky enough to fulfil their ultimate professional goal, let alone twice – yet this is the case for the award-winning classical trumpeter Alison Balsom. She performed at the Last Night ...

'Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert …" Trumpeter Alison Balsom sighs as she reels off the names – and in that sigh lies the reason why the trumpet is an unlikely Cinderella on the classical concert podium.

Alison Balsom has cemented an international reputation as one of classical music’s great ambassadors and is ranked among the most distinctive and ground-breaking musicians on the international circuit ...

British trumpeter Alison Balsom bagged her third Classic BRIT award last night (May 12) and her second as Female Artist of the Year securing her place as one of the UK’s most respected classical art… ...

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 ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...