Planning a career in music, like planning to climb a mountain, is much easier said than done. Achieving success as a soloist is like achieving a successful ascent of Mount Everest. Many are called but ...
Aware of her novelty value as ‘a blonde girl playing the trumpet’, Alison Balsom’s soloist training has taught her always to look forward and to make concerts work even when everything goes wrong. No ...
Spend an evening with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and 2013 Gramophone Awards Artist of the Year Alison Balsom as she performs pieces by Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Maurice Ravel.