[citation needed] He trained at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, alongside musicians such as Don Burrows, James Morrison, and George Golla.
[2][3] He has been a regular on the Jazz music scene since 1979, and has led his own ensembles performing his own compositions, but also those of classical composers like Johann Bach, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Leonard Bernstein.
[citation needed] From 1984 until 1988 he worked with the Kinetic Theatre company, an was assistant musical director of for Pope John Paul II Youth Celebration.
[citation needed] In 1998 the JS Bach Trio (Hunt, with Laurie Thompson and Gary Holgate) won ABC Classic FM's listeners' choice award, for the recording Kevin Hunt plays JS Bach.
[citation needed] In 2001 he was awarded the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Jazz Scholarship to study in New York, in piano and composition.