Alison Balsom
Milton Court Artist-in-Residence
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Alison Balsom is infinitely more than just our finest living trumpeter. As Milton Court Artist-in-Residence she salutes Miles Davis, and brings baroque London back to teeming, unquenchable life.
Events
Alison Balsom in Gabriel: An Entertainment with Trumpet
All human life is here: Samuel Adamson’s theatrical celebration of Baroque music brings to life the sights, sounds and stories of 17th-century London through the eyes of a court trumpeter.
Samuel Adamson
Text
Alison Balsom
trumpet
The English Concert
Harry Bicket
music director
Elizabeth Watts
soprano
Tim Morgan
countertenor
Gwilym Bowen
tenor
Chorus from Guildhall School
Dominic Dromgoole
director
Jamie Parker
actor
Jack Farthing
actor
Anjana Vasan
actor
Amanda Wilkin
actor
Alison Balsom plays Sketches of Spain
Balsom and Guildhall Jazz Orchestra give their take on Miles Davis’s ground-breaking concept album Sketches of Spain, which picked up where Kind of Blue left off in questioning the nature of jazz.
Iain Ballamy
21st Century Pastoral
Miles Davis
Sketches of Spain (arr Gil Evans)
Alison Balsom
trumpet
Iain Ballamy
Saxophone
Scott Stroman
director
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra
Guildhall Big Band
Event
Britten Sinfonia with Alison Balsom
Superstar Alison Balsom performs a virtuosic programme of music from Purcell to Birtwistle via Scarlatti, celebrating the remarkable voice of the trumpet.
Purcell arr Berio, Maxwell Davies
Fantasias and Pavans
John Woolrich (after Purcell)
Hark! The echoing air (world premiere)
Scarlatti
Sonatas Set 2 (orch John Woolrich)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Virelai (Sus une fontayne)
Ligeti arr Howarth
Mysteries of the Macabre
Britten Sinfonia
Alison Balsom
trumpet
Jacqueline Shave
director/violin
