Alison Balsom has been a professional classical trumpeter since 2001. She is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist,\u00a0and she released her debut album with EMI Classics in 2002. In 2005, she released her second disc, Bach Works for Trumpet<\/i> as part of a contract with EMI Classics. In 2006, Balsom 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 and 2011 Classical BRIT Awards. Her third album (the second disc in the EMI contract), Caprice<\/i> was released in September 2006 and was awarded ‘Solo CD of the Year 2006’ byBrass Band World<\/i> magazine. Balsom 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 jazzy arrangement of George Gershwin’s “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” with mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly.\u00a0Balsom was the principal trumpet of the London Chamber Orchestra.\u00a0Her main trumpet is a Malone-converted Bach C Trumpet.<\/p>\n