A passionate advocate for the bassoon, much sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and communicator, Amy Harman was appointed solo bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra aged only twenty-three. She is much in demand as a guest principal with leading orchestras in Europe, including Paavo Järvi’s Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and is currently principal bassoon of the Aurora Orchestra. The Young Classical Artists Trust selected her in 2014. As a soloist, she premièred Roxanna Panufnik’s Concerto for Bassoon and String Orchestra with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, has performed Strauss’s Concertino with the English Chamber Orchestra and Mozart’s Concerto at the Festival Suoni dal Golfo, in Lerici, and appeared as a flying soloist at the world première of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht. The composers Olav Berg, Héloïse Werner, Brian Elias, Roxanna Panufnik, Robin Holloway, and Simon Holt have written works specially for her. The first bassoonist to perform a live broadcast solo recital for BBC Radio 3, she regularly gives recitals in the UK and Germany with her collaborator the pianist Tom Poster, has taken part at the Bath Mozartfest and Mizmorim Kammermusik Festival as well as international festivals in Pärnu, Spoleto (USA), Aldeburgh, Tbilisi, West Cork, and Ryedale, and regularly attends the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove. She regards chamber music as the heart of her performing life, was a member of Ensemble 360 for ten years, appears regularly with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Artists in Association at Wigmore Hall since 2020, and is a member of the Orsino Ensemble, founded by Adam Walker. Amy Harman gives master-classes, coaches internationally, and was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music from 2013 to 2024, when she was appointed professor of bassoon at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, the first woman to hold such a position in Germany.