Kevin Hunt
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Kevin Hunt is a jazz pianist-composer who has performed regularly in the Sydney jazz scene since 1979.
He currently performs regularly with vocalist Emma Pask and pianist Simon Tedeschi. Kevin’s Australian jazz influences and teachers are Don Burrows, Chuck Yates, Roger Frampton,Joh Speight, Judy Bailey, Paul MacNamara, Paul Grabowsky, Bill Motzing, Stephanie McCallum, Phil Slater, Dr John Bassett, Dr. Christopher Sainsbury, Professor Anna Reid, Wayne Stuart AO, and Deborah Cheetham AO.
As well as performing jazz music, Kevin teaches jazz studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and has recently completed his PhD entitled ‘Perceptions of the Stuart & Sons piano: realising a creative, active vision.’ In this research Kevin analyses the sound colours produced by of the Australian made Stuart & Sons piano. As an outcome of this research, Kevin collaborates musically with local and regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians to produce new music for the Stuart Piano. This research has instigated the annual OUR MUSIC Indigenous music program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music to encourage continued collaborations between Sydney’s Indigenous and non- Indigenous musicians.
Kevin is the recipient of many awards, including the MO Award for “Jazz Instrumental Performer of the Year” in 1999.