# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alison-balsom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:36.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alison-balsom"
name: "Alison Balsom"
slug: "alison-balsom"
description: "Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes, is a retired English trumpet soloist. She is an 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 and finally in 2025. She was the artistic director of the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival."
tagline: "English trumpet player"
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gender: "female"
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birthDate: "1978-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump