Those lips, those eyes - those lips! And when you're talking about trumpeters, the lips matter most. They serve Alison Balsom well, which is why the 29-year-old blond trumpeter is such a big noise in her native Britain. She makes her New York debut Sunday at 5 p.m., at Free for All at Town Hall, backed by violin, cello and keyboard. Expect to hear new transcriptions of pieces by Bach, Handel and more, played with a liquid-silver tone one reviewer rhapsodized as "sweet nectar."

Voted Young British Classical Performer of the Year at the 2006 Classical Brits, Alison Balsom follows her critically-acclaimed album Bach: Works for Trumpet with Caprice, a novel and demanding programme of specially arranged classical works.

“She has the capacity to draw the sweetest sounds out of the trumpet to soothe even the most savage beast”
John Wallace, Gramophone

“Olympian agility, a liquid tone, immense subtleties of phrasing”
Geoff Brown, The Times