Thomas Hultén

Contact: thomas@thomashulten.com

Trombonist/composer/arranger Thomas Hultén started playing trombone in the local Salvation Army Band in Katrineholm, Sweden. He studied trombone at the Gothenburg Conservatory, and has studied with Ingemar Roos, Christian Lindberg, Bill Broughton and Bill Watrous.

Proficient in both jazz and classical music, Thomas has performed not only with the Houston Symphony and the Houston Ballet, but also with Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, the Temptations, the Four Tops, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the Moody Blues. He was a featured soloist at the Texas Jazz Festival in Corpus Christi in 1998 and 2000.

Thomas plays in:

www.paragonbrass.org

www.texasbrass.com

www.paulenglishmusic.com

Before moving to Houston from Sweden in 1997, Thomas was a member of the Hässlö Brass Ensemble 1990-1997, a seven-piece full-time brass ensemble. He was also a sought-after free-lance player, and have performed with the Gothenburg Symphony, the Gothenburg Opera, the Helsingborg Symphony, the Norrköping Symphony, Stavanger (Norway) Symphony and Trondheim (Norway) Symphony.

Thomas has toured England, Wales, Denmark and Japan with the Gothenburg Brass Band; Germany, Holland and USA with the Peoria Jazz Band and Norway and USA with the Hässlö Brass. In 1997, Thomas toured Australia and New Zealand and in 1999 Switzerland, playing lead-trombone with the jazz-group Spiritual to the Bone.

His works have been recorded by the Hässlö Brass, Peoria Jazz Band and the Texas Brass Ensemble.

In 1995 he was commissioned to write a children's show for the Landsdelsmusikken in Bo, Norway. This show has been performed over 200 time since1996.

His arrangements for brass band have been published by the Salvation Army.

Thomas is married to Kristina, a micro-biologist at Baylor College of Medicine. Spare-time goes to chasing their sons Jakob, David and Philip around the backyard, and trying to revive a junky old MGB.