Alison Balsom
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Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes, is a retired English trumpet soloist. She is an arranger, producer, and music educator.
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You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor - in the electrical sense.
Interview - Alison Balsom: 'You can't hide behind a trumpet'
When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, “Isn’t that unusual for a woman?” And “That’s jazz, right?
I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement.
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Topowa! Never Give UpAwards 4
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Alexander R. ToddAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Leicester
Tan DunAlso won Classic Brit Awards
Emmanuel PahudAlso won Echo Klassik - Instrumentalist of the Year
Leif Ove AndsnesAlso won Classic Brit Awards
Isabelle FaustAlso won Echo Klassik - Instrumentalist of the Year
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of AsthalAlso won honorary doctor of the University of LeicesterAbout this person
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.
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