Emily Hultmark, born in 1985 to English/Swedish parents was Principal of the National Youth Orchestra and attended Chetham's School of Music, Manchester in 2002. Here she studied with Graham Salvage until 2004, upon which she moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, to study with Anders Engström at Göteborgs Musikhögskola. She partook in masterclasses around Europe with Klaus Thunemann, Rachel Gough, Martin Gatt, Stepan Turnovsky, Marco Lugaresi and Gustavo Nunez.
In 2006, Emily moved to Berlin to study with Volker Tessmann at Hanns Eisler Hochschule der Musik. Following this, in 2008 Emily became a member of Göteborgs Symfoniker, 3 years under the chief musical director Gustavo Dudamel.
Under invitation from Zubin Mehta, Emily worked from January 2012- June 2013 as Principal bassoon with the opera orchestra of Palau de les Arts, Valencia.
In 2014 Emily was given the position of Principal bassoon with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
Emily won the position of Finalist in the International Gillet Fox Competition, 2010. She was awarded three consequetive prizes from MMSF (Martin Music Scholarship Fund), followed by a MMSF recital with players from the Philharmonia in 2007. Emily has been awarded various scholarships in Sweden, including the Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien scholarship, Ekmans Fonden scholarship and Ljungrenska Tävlingen. In 2011 Emily was awarded the prestigious Sten A Olssons Stiftelse för Kultur scholarship and most recently, in February 2015 the Prince Carl Gustaf young person's scholarship.
A creative background has allowed Emily the freedom to expand boundaries within her playing. She has a passion for exploring the capacity of the bassoon's place within improvisatory and experimental groups and creates her own music with electronics. Recent performances have included ’Generationer', an experimentalcollaboration together with her father, trumpet player and composer Torbjörn Hultmark in Grunewaldsalen, Stockholm.
Emily's solo appearances include concertos with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Mozart's Bassoon Concerto under leadership of Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Martin Fröst conducting and the Mozart concerto with Rouvali's Tampere Philharmonic.
Emily was appointed Principal Bassoon with the Philharmonia in 2017. She often appears with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic and the Halle and performs also with Aurora, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London. She has given a number of masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music and was made Professor at the Royal College of Music in 2019.
