Kevin Hunt (musician)

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Kevin Hunt
Origin Australia
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Pianist, composer

Kevin Hunt is an Australian jazz pianist and composer.

Early life and education

Hunt's first teacher was his father Ellis Hunt.[citation needed]

He trained at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, alongside musicians such as Don Burrows, James Morrison, and George Golla. His teachers included Chuck Yates, John Speight and David Levy.[citation needed]

Career

Hunt is a jazz pianist[1] and composer.[2][3] He has been a regular on the Jazz music scene since 1979, and has led his own ensembles performing his own compositions, but all those of classical composers like Johann Bach, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Leonard Bernstein.[citation needed]

He played in a trio called the JS Bach Trio, with Laurie Thompson and Gary Holgate.[citation needed]

From 1984 until 1988 he worked with the Kinetic Theatre company, an was assistant musical director of for Pope John Paul II Youth Celebration.[citation needed]

Recognition

In 1998 the JS Bach Trio (Hunt, with Laurie Thompson and Gary Holgate) won ABC Classic FM's listeners' choice award, for the recording Kevin Hunt plays JS Bach.[citation needed]

In 2001 he was awarded the Australian Elizabeth Theatre Trust Jazz Scholarship to study in New York, in pain and composition. He briefly worked at theAstralain International Conservatorium of Music and has also spoke at lecture on music. He was nominated for ARIA Awards for Best Jazz Album with Kevin Hunt - Plays JS Bach in 1998[4] and with Kevin Hunt Trio - Love Walked In in 2003.[5]

Discography

Albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
Tree
(with Steve Hunter and David Jones)
  • Released: 1997[6]
  • Label: Birdland
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Kevin Hunt Plays JS Bach
  • Released: 1998[7][8]
  • Label: ABC Jazz (724349515727)
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Love & Logic
(with Steve Hunter and David Jones)
  • Released: May 1999[9]
  • Label: ABC Jazz
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Cocktails With The Kevin Hunt Trio
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: ABC (SHOPS005)
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Love Walked In
  • Released: 2002[10]
  • Label: La Brava (0055)
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The Magic of Hoagy Carmichael
(with Marie Wilson)
  • Released: April 2004[11]
  • Label: Marie Wilson and Kevin Hunt (MWKH2002)
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Eye to Eye Vol 1+2
(with Don Burrows)
  • Released: June 2007[12]
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Duelling Schimmels
(with Simon Tedeschi)
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Schimmel
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Woodlands
(with Simon Tedeschi)
  • Released: October 2010[13]
 —

Awards and nominations

ARIA Awards

The ARIA Music Awards are annual awards, which recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

Year Recipient/Nominated work Award Result Ref.
1998 Kevin Hunt Plays JS Bach Best Jazz Album Nominated [14]
2003 Love Walked In Best Jazz Album Nominated [14]

Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Kevin Hunt won one award in that time.[15]

Year Recipient/Nominated work Award Result (wins only)
1998 Kevin Hunt Jazz Instrumental Performer of the Year Won

References

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