Anthony Hunt

Anthony Hunt is Head of Music and Chorus Master at the State Opera of South Australia, and the Director of Music at St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide.

He was Chorus Master at Opera Australia from 2013-2019, where he prepared the chorus for over 60 different operas, performing at the Sydney Opera House, The Arts Centre Melbourne, and Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. At OA he also worked as a repetiteur and assistant conductor.

Recent conducting engagements have included Sweeney Todd and The Turn of the Screw for State Opera, the Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs as a fundraiser for Afghanistan, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and Handel’s Messiah with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. He has been a guest chorus master for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus.

Anthony completed his studies in London, as a repetiteur on the Royal Academy of Music specialist Opera Course, winning additional prizes in piano accompaniment. He has been a participant in the Symphony Australia Conductor Development Program, and graduated from the Elder Conservatorium of Music with an honours degree in piano and organ performance. He is an associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and Artistic Director of the St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation Concert Series.