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Emma Hunt began learning the violin at the age of five in her hometown of Geelong. She loved music from a young age, but it wasn’t until she began studying music at university that she embraced the violin as her passion. While at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, she studied with William Hennessy, who became one of her most important musical influences, and developed a love of playing orchestral and chamber music. Following her undergraduate studies, she attended the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), under the tutelage of Adam Chalabi. As a student, Emma played with the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Young Australian Concert Artists’ Program and the Sydney Sinfonia. She won the C.D. Hume Violin Scholarship and the Australian Youth Classical Music Regional Competition and was a finalist in the ANAM Chamber Music Competition. She currently works as a freelance musician in Melbourne, performing regularly with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria, is in demand as a violin teacher and orchestral tutor and loves to play quartets and other chamber music whenever she gets the chance. In her spare time, she tries to grow edible things in her garden and listen to as much folk music as possible.