Well done to trumpet player Alison Balsom winning the young British Classical Performer at last nights Classical Brit Awards , Alison a former member of Redbridge Band and guest soloist with many bands / Orchestras. Alison was featured at the Beaumaris Festival a few years ago playing the Denis Wright cornet concerto and pieces by Ivor Bosanko and Goedike. a well deserved award.
I saw her at Symphony Hall with the CBSO Youth - she was superb. Great to have a Brass performer doing so well in the wider musical world. Lets hope she continues to be involved with brass bands as her profile grows, i am sure she could come and play for us... ;-)
Well Done I own two Alison Balsom CDs - she is a fabulous player. Lots of it is absolutely jaw-dropping technically, but always beuatifully musical. I've tried to play the unaccompanied Partita from the first CD and I run out of steam about halfway through. She just carries on to the end sounding effortless. World class!
Congrats too for her performance at the show last night - she played a blinder, which can't have been easy infront of that kind of audience, having stood on stage for what seemed like 10 mins waiting for Placido Domingo to finish his acceptance speech!
- I saw the awards on telly earlier this evening ... am I the only one who thought the orchestra were out of sync. with her playing the Bach? noticed this on a couple of other featured artists as well).
Classical Brits It's repeated on BBC2 this evening. Starts at 11 though, which is too late as Monday's a workday so I'm going to video it...
