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Torbjörn Hultmark (trumpet) was born in Sweden in 1957 and came to live in England in 1985. He currently works as a musician, teacher and composer. He has dual Swedish and British citizenship and lives with his family in a rural village in Berkshire. Torbjörn studied trumpet, conducting and composition at the Gothenburg Conservatoire of Music and at National Centre for Orchestral Studies, Goldsmiths' College, London - his main teachers were Bengt Eklund (Gothenburg) and John Wallace (London). Alongside his work as a member of Chaconne Brass, Notes Inegales, La Banda Europa and the Headspace Ensemble, he works with orchestras and ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, London and Chamber Orchestra of Europe as well as film and TV session work. Torbjörn has worked as a soloist with the Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Sinfonietta and with the BBC Philharmonic at the 2007 Albert Hall Proms. As a composer, Torbjörn's music has been performed extensively and recorded on CD as well as broadcast in Britain (BBC Radio 3 and Classic fM) and abroad. His output is wide-ranging and includes works for large orchestra and choral music as well as scores for different types of chamber ensembles. In 2008 he completed a BBC-commission for Chaconne. Torbjörn runs TootProductions, a small specialist recording business. He also teaches at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music.