Having grown up in Howard County, MD, Ms. Hunt is passionate about local music education and bringing orchestra into the 21st century.

Ms. Hunt’s primary instrument is the viola. Her first private teacher was Tammy Sutton, a double degree graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, frequent local soloist and chamber musician for thirty years, and a founder of the Antares Musicians. Ms. Hunt has also studied under Alice Young, Sharon Pineo Meyer, and Dr. Sherrie Norwitz.

While at Glenelg High School, she participated in every music ensemble she could under the direction of Kevin George, Nancy Buckel, and Barry Enzman. Ensembles included concert orchestra, chamber orchestra, marching band, symphonic band, jazz band, concert choir, student director of the Madrigal singers her senior year, women's choir, women's barbershop, and pit orchestras for several musicals. She played in 9 ensembles on the spring concert of her senior year, and performed a concerto for solo viola accompanied by the GHS Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Hunt was the first recipient of the Robert Connor Memorial Scholarship in Arts and Athletics at Glenelg High School. In summer of 2007, she performed with the GHS Jazz Band in Europe, playing in three jazz festivals across Germany, France, and Switzerland, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, Jazz a Juan, and the Jazz House in Freiburg, Germany. Outside of school, she was a member of the Howard Regional Youth Orchestra (now called the Howard County Youth Orchestra) for four years. In HRYO, she sat first chair viola for three years, and went on two trips with the group to play at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She was in the Maryland All-State Choir in 7th grade and the Maryland All-State Orchestra from 8th - 12th grade.

Ms. Hunt received a music scholarship to attend Towson University and graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in K-12 Instrumental Music Education. While at TU, she studied viola under Dr. Sherrie Norwitz. In 2011, Ms. Hunt won the Music Department Talent Award in Strings, and received second place in the C. James Velie Memorial Scholarship in Music Education. At that time it was not possible at TU to double major in music education AND music performance, but she participated in multiple musical ensembles every semester graduating with 161 credits for her one bachelor’s degree. Her ensembles in college included symphony orchestra; private lessons and masterclass; various chamber ensembles such as string quartets, string quintets, the Mozart clarinet quintet, piano quartets, the Beethoven Octet; pit orchestras for musicals and operas; the TU Women’s Choir; the TU Mixed Voice Chorale; and rehearsed and performed pieces each semester that were written by TU student composition majors. She worked for professor and composer Dr. Jonathan Leshnoff as an assistant for two years. Dr. Leshnoff is a thriving composer today and has been commissioned to write music for Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the major symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, and Pittsburgh, among others. With a love of contemporary music and jazz, Ms. Hunt also played a Duke Ellington piece in a string quartet with the Towson University Big Band and participated in contemporary improvisation nights in Baltimore City at An Die Musik and the former venue The Wind Up Space.