American cellist Stephanie Hunt is a versatile musician, performing on both modern and baroque cello.  Ms. Hunt enjoys playing orchestral and chamber music and has served as the principal cellist of the Shepherd School Opera Orchestra and assistant principal cellist of the Miami Symphony Orchestra.  During her two summers as a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, she worked with conductors James Levine, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, and Bernard Haitink.  She has also had chamber music coachings with members of the Juilliard and Cleveland string quartets. Ms. Hunt graduated with a Bachelor of Music in modern cello summa cum laude from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and received a Master of Music in modern cello from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.  She graduated with a Bachelor of Music honours and a Master of Music in baroque cello from the Utrecht Conservatory and also received her Master of Music there.  Her teachers include Viola de Hoog, Norman Fischer, Hans Jørgen Jensen, Ross Harbaugh, and Monique Bartels.