Question: Who is the 2013 Gramophone Awards Artist of the Year who has been featured at Royston Arts Festival in recent years?

The Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist was an honor presented to classical artists at the 28th Grammy Awards in 1986.  The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". <SEP> Chris Tally Evans is a British disabled artist, actor, director and writer.  He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as a performer and graduated from Trinity College, London with a teaching diploma.  Evans' interest in theatre and music started as a teenager when he joined West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and West Glamorgan Youth Arts Company as an actor, dancer and musician.  He was lead guitarist for the West Glamorgan Youth Arts Company production of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall and London's Wembley Arena and was a dancer in Vaughan Williams' "Job" at a performance attended by Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981.  In both these productions he shared the stage with Russell T Davies, writer and producer of Dr Who.  By the age of 14 he was playing the guitar semi-professionally in pubs and clubs in the Swansea area, as well as for a number of theatre shows.  For two years at this time he was lead guitarist in the backing band of a very young Catherine Zeta-Jones.  Later Evans played in a number of bands including the electric folk band Straight From the Wood who chalked up memorable appearances at Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Gwyl Pontardawe Festival and the Village Pump Folk Festival in Trowbridge.  Evans has had both poetry and prose published, directed many theatre productions and has performed himself in the United States, Canada, Poland and New Zealand.  His film work was exhibited at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, in 2011.  The Arts Council of Wales granted Evans a Major Creative Wales Award in 2009 and he performed work created at this time at the InterACT Disability Arts Festival in Auckland, New Zealand.  His unlimited commission, "Turning Points", was shown in the Southbank Centre, London during the 2012 Paralympic Games and then went on to be exhibited in Doha, Qatar in 2013 as part of the Middle East’s first ever disability arts festival.  He has featured in HTV’s award winning documentary, One in Six, on BBC 2W’s The Arts Show, and wrote and performed a 5-part series for BBC Radio 4 called "My Mile of the River".  His March 2014 production, "21st Century Dinosaurs", with a visually impaired cast, was reviewed favourably by Sarah Finch of National Theatre Wales.  He wrote, performed and made video content for National Theatre Wales/Celf o Gwmpas' Big Democracy Project which responded to the question "Are disabled people an easy target for the cuts?"  in June 2015.  In 2015 he was appointed a National Adviser to the Arts Council of Wales. <SEP>  It was originally initiated and directed by the composer Richard Lambert (from 1982–1986) and was revived in 2007.  It takes place annually in the last week of September.  In recent years it has featured the trumpeter Alison Balsom, the theatre Director Robin Belfield, the author/illustrator James Mayhew, the poet Wendy Cope, Megson and the Daleks.  In its earlier incarnation it was associated with the Master of the Queen's Music, Malcolm Williamson, who premiered at least one work at the festival.  Voluntary arts groups who regularly contribute to the festival include the Corvus Amateur Drama Society (CADS), Royston Town Band, Royston Arts Society and Royston Photographic Society. Royston Arts Festival is a festival of the arts in Royston, Hertfordshire (UK). <SEP>  Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009. Alison Louise Balsom OBE (born in Hertfordshire, England on 7 October 1978) is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, music educator, curator and spokesperson for the importance of music education.  She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Leicester and Anglia Ruskin University, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.