Real name: Alison Louise Balsom

Effective period / Period of releases: 2003 - 2016

English classical trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, and music educator.
Born October 7, 1978 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK.
Aged 15 to 18, she played with the National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and The Guildhall School Of Music & Drama. Alison was the Principal Trumpet of the English Chamber Orchestra. From 2018 to 2019, she was Artistic Director of Cheltenham Music Festival. In 2016, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
She has a son, Charlie (b. 2010), with her ex-partner, the English conductor Edward Gardner, whom she separated in 2011. In 2017, she married film director Sir Sam Mendes.