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 ...

The celebrated French trumpeter Maurice André loved to claim that the lung power required to play the trumpet as he did was sufficient to inflate a lorry tyre! The fragrant Alison Balsom looks too ...

The audience at Mandeville Auditorium saw something strange Thursday evening. Soloist Pacho Flores strode on stage in front of the San Diego Symphony, perilously carrying two trumpets and a cornet.

Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician who spent most of his career in the service of an aristocratic family in Hungary but became one of the most famous and well-respected composers of his time. As ...

Alison Balsom is one of the best trumpet soloists of her generation, with a defiantly forward-looking musical philosophy. Alison practised on a trumpet belonging to her uncle, playing in both the ...

Growing up in South Dakota with four older brothers, playing trumpet was a lifeline for Neil Mueller, Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s principal trumpeter. “There was always someone stronger, faster or a ...

It was a great weekend for Shostakovich and Prokofiev concertos at the Aspen Music Festival, with a fine smattering of other concerto-like pieces to liven up the proceedings. Augustin Hadelich never ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With Simon Rattle having departed and plans for a new concert hall in the City of London long shelved, the ...