Donald Frederick Hunt OBE (26 July 1930 – 4 August 2018[1]) was an English musician, from Gloucester.
[2] As a boy, Hunt was a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral, and became assistant to the organist Herbert Sumsion in his teens.
He was associated with the Three Choirs Festival and served as its artistic director and conductor eight times in the period from 1975 to 1996.
His published books include studies of Edward Elgar and Samuel Sebastian Wesley.
His many recordings included works by Elgar and other British composers such as Charles Villiers Stanford and Herbert Howells.