Alison Balsom(艾利森 巴尔松)1978年10月7日生于英国。自11岁随John Miller、Paul Benniston、John Wallace学习。1999年进入法国国立高等音乐学院，随Antoine Cure学习。得奖经历：97年获John Fletcher 铜管大赛优胜奖；98年获得BBC年度铜管青年演奏家称号；99年获得伦敦交响乐团招考半准决赛入围。Alison随后又在巴黎音乐学院的市府学校学习小号，师傅哈肯哈登伯格。并在第四届莫里斯安德烈国际小号比赛中获得第三名和最具美感银色奖。她进来被任命为市府音乐及戏剧学校的小号访问学者，并被英国古典音乐奖评为年度最佳青年英国表演者。Alison Balsom的独奏和协奏曲目非常广泛，从阿尔比诺尼泽梅曼。她既演奏现代小号也演奏传统小号。在青年艺术家音乐基金会的推荐下，Alison 一起了百代古典唱片公司的关注，在2002年为她发行了首张唱片，Alison现为BBC第三套广播中，新生代艺术家节目中的一员。在这歌节目的赞助下，她已经在维格摩尔音乐厅和全部BBC管弦乐队合作演出过，这其中包括BBC交响乐和Andrew Davis爵士及BBC威尔国家管弦乐团。美女小号手在《Caprice》专辑中改编莫扎特《第11钢琴奏鸣曲》《夜后咏叹调》法雅的《7首流行的西班牙歌曲》帕格尼尼的《随想曲第24号》巴赫的《第一小提琴协奏曲》等等大家耳熟能详的曲目。通过不同时期的作品反映出了Alison 高超的小号演奏技巧。
Alison Balsom
Alison Louise Balsom (born 7 October 1978, Hertfordshire) is an English trumpet soloist.
Early life
She attended the Tannery Drift Primary School, then the Greneway Middle School and the Meridian School, all in Royston. She took her A levels at the Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge.
She played in her local brass band, the Royston Town Band
She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the Conservatoire de Paris, and also with Håkan Hardenberger.
Career
Balsom has been a professional classical trumpeter since 2001. She is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist,[1] and she released her debut album with EMI Classics in 2002. In 2005, she released her second disc, "Bach Works for Trumpet" as part of a contract with EMI Classics. In 2006, Alison won 'Young British Classical Performer' at the 2006 Classical BRIT Awards and was awarded the 'Classic FM Listeners' Choice Award' at the Classic FM Gramophone Awards. She won 'Female Artist of the Year' at the 2009 Classical BRIT Awards. Her third album (the second disc in the EMI contract), "Caprice" was released in September 2006 and was awarded 'Solo CD of the Year 2006' by Brass Band World magazine. Alison was a soloist at the 2009 Last Night of the Proms, performing, among other pieces, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a jazz oriented arrangement of George Gershwin's "They Can't Take That Away from Me" with mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly.
Balsom is the principal trumpet of the London Chamber Orchestra. Her main trumpet is a Malone-converted Bach C Trumpet.
Professorship
Since 2006 she has been Professor of Trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Personal life
Aside from music, Balsom has a keen interest in yachting.[2] She is reported to have had a brief relationship with the violinist Maxim Vengerov in 2007, and since early 2009 has been dating British conductor, Edward Gardner.[2][3]
Discography
Alison Balsom: Italian Concertos (EMI Classics, 2010)
Alison Balsom: Haydn and Hummel Trumpet Concertos (EMI Classics, 2008)
Alison Balsom: Caprice (EMI Classics, 2006)
Alison Balsom: Bach works for Trumpet (EMI Classics, 2005)
Alison Balsom: Music for Trumpet and Organ (EMI Classics Debut, 2002)
Awards
Best Female Artist, Classical BRIT Awards, 2009[4]
Classic FM Listeners' Choice Award, Classic FM Gramophone Award 2006
Young British Performer, Classical BRIT Awards, 2006
Feeling Musique Prize for quality of sound in the 4th Maurice André International Trumpet Competition.
Concerto finalist in the BBC Young Musicians Competition, 1998