"Until its jazzy finale, the trumpet concerto Epiclesis gave the audience more of a test, though little daunted the hot young soloist Alison Balsom, blazing in red, surmounting the score's explosions, knots and underpinned plainsong with the ease of someone just making coffee."

"One of the most talented trumpeters of the younger generation."

"Programming Alison Balsom in John McCabe's Rainforest II, with its brilliant trumpet against solo strings, was an inspired choice."