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Alison Balsom

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Alison Louise Balsom, born in Hertfordshire, England on 7 October 1978, is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, music educator, curator and spokesperson for the importance of music education. [1]

63 relations: Anglia Ruskin University, BBC Music, BBC Music Magazine, BBC Online, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, BBC Radio 4, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Young Musician, Cambridge, Classic Brit Awards, Classic FM (UK), Clemency Burton-Hill, Conservatoire de Paris, Daily Mail, Deal, Kent, Desert Island Discs, Echo Music Prize, Edward Gardner (conductor), EMI Classics, GCE Advanced Level, George Frideric Handel, George Gershwin, God Only Knows, Gramophone Classical Music Awards, Greneway Middle School, Royston, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Guy Barker, Håkan Hardenberger, Henry Purcell, Hertfordshire, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Hitchin, Hyperion Records, Joseph Haydn, London Chamber Orchestra, Maurice André, Meridian School, Royston, Miloš Karadaglić, Natural trumpet, Order of the British Empire, Qigang Chen, Renold Schilke, Richard Rodney Bennett, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royston, Hertfordshire, Sam Mendes, Samuel Adamson, Sarah Connolly, Shakespeare's Globe, ..., The English Concert, The Fairy-Queen, The Independent, The Proms, The Times, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Time Out (magazine), Trumpet, Trumpet Concerto (Haydn), University of Leicester, Vincent Bach Corporation, VocalEyes, Warner Classics. Expand index (13 more) »

Anglia Ruskin University

Anglia Ruskin University is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom.

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BBC Music

BBC Music is an umbrella title used by the BBC to collect together its music output.

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BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine is a monthly magazine.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme (also known as the NGA scheme) was launched in 1999 by Adam Gatehouse as part of the BBC's commitment to young musical talent.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.

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BBC Young Musician

BBC Young Musician is a televised national music competition, broadcast biennially on BBC Television and BBC Radio 3.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Classic Brit Awards

The Classic BRIT Awards (previously Classical BRIT Awards) are an annual awards ceremony held in the United Kingdom covering aspects of classical and crossover music, and are the equivalent of pop music's Brit Awards.

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Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM (stylised as Classic M) is one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations.

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Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill (born Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill, born 1 July 1981) is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist and violinist.

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Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris (English: Paris Conservatory) is a college of music and dance founded in 1795 associated with PSL Research University.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Deal, Kent

Deal is a town in Kent, England, which lies on the border of the North Sea and the English Channel, eight miles north-east of Dover and eight miles south of Ramsgate.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Echo Music Prize

Echo (stylised as ECHO) was an accolade by the, an association of recording companies of Germany to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry.

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Edward Gardner (conductor)

Edward Gardner OBE (born 22 November 1974) is an English conductor.

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EMI Classics

EMI Classics was a record label founded by EMI in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases.

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GCE Advanced Level

The A Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational authorities of British Crown dependencies to students completing secondary or pre-university education.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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God Only Knows

"God Only Knows" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher for American rock band the Beach Boys, released in May 1966 as the eighth track on the group's album Pet Sounds.

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Gramophone Classical Music Awards

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards, launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry.

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Greneway Middle School, Royston

The Greneway Middle School is a middle school located in Royston, Hertfordshire, England.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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Guy Barker

Guy Jeffrey Barker MBE (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer.

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Håkan Hardenberger

Ulf Håkan Hardenberger (born 27 October 1961 in Malmö) is a Swedish trumpeter.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Hills Road Sixth Form College

Hills Road Sixth Form College (commonly referred to as HRSFC, Hills Road or just Hills) is a public sector co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England, providing full-time A-level courses for approximately 2,400 sixth form students from the surrounding area and a wide variety of courses to around 4,000 part-time students of all ages in the adult education programme, held as daytime and evening classes.

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Hitchin

Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 33,350.

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Hyperion Records

Hyperion Records is an independent British classical record label.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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London Chamber Orchestra

The London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) is the longest established professional chamber orchestra in the UK.

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Maurice André

Maurice André (born 21 May 1933 in Alès, France, and died 25 February 2012 in Bayonne) was a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field.

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Meridian School, Royston

The Meridian School is a secondary school and sixth form located in Royston, Hertfordshire, England.

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Miloš Karadaglić

Miloš Karadaglić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Милош Карадаглић, born 1983), sometimes known just by his mononym Miloš, is an award-winning classical guitarist and Deutsche Grammophon/Mercury Classics recording artist from Montenegro.

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Natural trumpet

A natural trumpet is a valveless brass instrument that is able to play the notes of the harmonic series.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Qigang Chen

Qigang Chen (pronounced) is a composer of Chinese origin born in 1951 in Shanghai.

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Renold Schilke

Renold Otto Schilke (1910–1982) was a professional orchestral trumpet player, instrument designer and manufacturer.

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Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist.

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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, (Scottish Gaelic: Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba) formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production and film in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Royston, Hertfordshire

Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England.

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Sam Mendes

Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director.

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Samuel Adamson

Samuel Adamson (born 27 November 1969) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter who has lived and worked in the UK since 1991.

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Sarah Connolly

Dame Sarah Patricia Connolly DBE (born 13 June 1963) is an English mezzo-soprano.

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Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's Globe is the complex housing a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse associated with William Shakespeare, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames.

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The English Concert

The English Concert is a baroque orchestra playing on period instruments based in London.

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The Fairy-Queen

The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular".

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Proms

The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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They Can't Take That Away from Me

"They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a 1937 popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Trumpet Concerto (Haydn)

Joseph Haydn's Concerto per il Clarino (Hob.: VIIe/1) (Trumpet Concerto in E flat major) was written in 1796 for his long-time friend Anton Weidinger.

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University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England.

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Vincent Bach Corporation

The Vincent Bach Corporation is an American manufacturer of brass musical instruments that began early in the twentieth century and still exists as a subsidiary of Conn-Selmer, a division of Steinway Musical Instruments.

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VocalEyes

VocalEyes is a registered charity in England that works with arts organisations across the United Kingdom to identify and remove barriers to access and inclusion for blind and partially sighted people.

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Warner Classics

Warner Classics is the classical music arm of Warner Music Group.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Balsom

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