Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “You are absolutely alone when you stand on the edge of the stage. It’s a bit like being on your deathbed: even ...

Alison Balsom earned her current reputation as the world’s top classical trumpet player with half a dozen outstanding recordings and several years of celebrated performances with major orchestras ...

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 ...

The star English trumpeter reveals the five trumpet concertos she considers to be the greatest of all time. “But these are really important in many ways,” she adds. Watch the video below, and scroll ...

Classical trumpeter Alison Balsom is to retire from performing after one final concert at the Last Night Of The Proms to spend more time with her family. The musician, who is married to Skyfall ...

'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.

I want to share two classical albums that have really caught my ear and fancy. The first is by an English trumpet player named Alison Balsom, born in Royston, England in 1978. Balsom has recorded many ...

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, ...

Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images. English trumpet player Alison Balsom, 34, accepted one of classical music’s top awards for a musician, Gramaphone’s Artist of the Year Award. The first British ...

BOSTON — “There’s no reason in this day and age someone shouldn’t do something because of gender,” said English trumpeter Alison Balsom at a fancy restaurant on Copley Square the day before her debut ...