William Todd Hunt Music Director Acclaimed for the absolute artistic transport of his conducting work, William Todd Hunt was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Conductor of the Juneau Lyric Opera, Mr. Hunt has also appeared with the Northern Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, the Kling Chamber Orchestra (Louisville, KY), Indiana University Chamber Opera, Opera to Go (Juneau, AK) and the Juneau Symphony. He served as Assistant Conductor at Indiana University Opera Theatre, University of Louisville Opera Theatre, Music Theatre Louisville and the Evansville Philharmonic where he has worked with conductors Arpád Jóo, Alfred Savia, Imre Palló and David Harman, among others. Mr. Hunt holds a Masters Degree in Conducting from Indiana University where he studied under Imre Palló and Thomas Baldner and a Bachelors Degree in Music Performance (Woodwinds) from the University of Louisville (KY). He has participated in masterclasses, seminars, and lessons in America under the guidance of such auspicious conductors as Kurt Masur, Stephen Schwartz, Raffi Armenian and Lawrence Leighton Smith. In Europe he has studied with Jorma Panula, Kirk Trevor, Johannes Schlaefli, Mariusz Smolij, and Tomaš Koutnik. Mr. Hunt served as co-founder and Music Director for Ardo Opera (Bloomington, IN), where he produced and conducted several productions, notably at the Bloomington Early Music Festival. Although presently focused on operatic work, he is equally at ease with symphonic orchestral conducting. Recently Mr. Hunt was a semi-finalist in the conductor competition sponsored by the Hungarian Television were he conducted the Norther Hungarian Symphony Orchestra in performance. He has also conducted the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in Kromeríž and Zlín, Czech Republic. Currently, Mr. Hunt is the founder and Music Director for Amalga Chamber Orchestra of Southeast Alaska. Previous opera and musical theater productions include Candide (Bernstein), The Turn of the Screw and Albert Herring (Britten), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti), L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi), Così fan tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Madama Butterfly (Puccini), Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Il Turco in Italia (Rossini), Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss), and Falstaff (Verdi). Currently Todd Hunt resides with his family in Juneau, Alaska.