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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAMMY-nominated Countertenor Reginald Mobley, who sang at the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023, interprets Vivaldi's rendition of the 13th century poem Stabat Mater, a meditation on sorrow, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to Louis Armstrong’s sweetness, Miles Davis’s wild squall, Handel’s Baroque majesty and other favorites. In the past we’ve chosen the five ...

Alison DeSimone is a musicologist — someone who is a scholar of music and its relationship with a wide variety of other disciplines. She is an Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of ...

Enjoy an afternoon of glorious music when the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of music director and conductor Stephen Alltop, continues its 2018-19 season with a concert of dazzling ...