“What I care about is music that has spiritual content. Bach is spiritual, and so is Louis Armstrong.” Most fans know Wynton Marsalis as the most recognizable jazz trumpeter of his generation. He’s ...

Like Sarah Willis, Alison Balsom is another instrumentalist forging a highly successful career in a male-dominated field. Her EMI releases up to now have included arrangements and transcriptions; here ...

Internationally-acclaimed trumpeter Alison Balsom joins Frances Fyfield to study the manuscript of Johann Hummel's famous, and famously challenging, Trumpet Concerto. Show more Johann Hummel was a ...

Make no attempt to categorize Josh Rzepka. He's a trumpet player, all right. But once you establish this obvious fact, it isn't wise to pigeonhole the 25-year-old musician. What's clear about the ...

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 ...

1 Review: BBC PROMS: SHOSTAKOVICH’S ‘LADY MACBETH’, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: CLASSIC THRILLER SOUNDTRACKS, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2025, Royal ...

On rare occasions, Sri Lankan audiences get to listen to a concert that delivers excitement, humour, intellectual stimulation and most of all, sheer enjoyment. The German Embassy will celebrate its ...

WASHINGTON - Maurice Andre, a onetime coal miner who left the pits as a boy and rose to become one of classical music’s most acclaimed trumpeters, an undisputed master of aural grace, died Feb. 25 at ...