Shirley Hunt

Praised by The Strad as “stylish and accomplished,” internationally respected baroque cellist and viola da gamba player Shirley Hunt hails from Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Hunt performs and records extensively with the nation's leading period instrument ensembles, including Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The Sebastians, TENET, Les Bostonades, Sonnambula, and RUCKUS. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Morgan Library & Museum, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Strathmore Mansion, Caramoor, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Rockport Music, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Hunt is a founding member of the Cramer Quartet, a period instrument string quartet performing classical and early romantic repertoire on gut strings. In addition to her concert appearances, Ms. Hunt can be heard on the Parma, Centaur, NCA, CORO, and Origin Classical labels. She has served on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts and the San Francisco Renaissance and Baroque Workshop, and has appeared as an invited guest at MIT, Harvard, and Princeton. She has taught masterclasses at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, Adelphi University, Cornish College of the Arts, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In 2018, Ms. Hunt’s recording of the viol music of C.F. Abel was featured in a multimedia installation by the Mexican visual artist Mauricio Cervantes in Oaxaca, Mexico.