Professor Una Hunt
Lecturer
Email: una.hunt@tudublin.ie
Professor Una Hunt lectures in Repetiteur and supervises performance research PhDs at the Conservatoire. She is founder and chair of the National Forum for Music Performance Research and project leader of PERFORM_LIVE, the first performance research festival held at the National Concert Hall, funded by the Irish Research Council (March 2022). With a particular interest in research, Una has led many notable projects with multi-media outputs including My Gentle Harp, Moore’s Irish Melodies, 1808-2008 and the open-access digital transfer project, the National Archive of Irish Composers, showcasing music from the National Library of Ireland. She produced the first-ever performance in English of Stanford’s Veiled Prophet opera for Wexford Festival Opera (2019), in which the Conservatoire’s vocal students performed, with videos on the RTE Player and YouTube. Una is general editor of a new concept series of monographs for publishers Peter Lang, Oxford, each of which includes complementary audio-visual performance exemplars on the internet.
With an international career as a concert pianist and chamber musician, Una has appeared in concert and on television with some of the world’s greatest soloists, including James Galway, and in many legendary venues, such as Carnegie Hall. She has performed concertos with the leading Irish orchestras including unknown repertoire of Irish interest which she has rediscovered. As an active recitalist, she tours extensively with her violinist sister, Fionnuala, and is a founder member of several prominent chamber music groups.
Una is an experienced media producer and has won international awards for her features and documentaries for RTÉ Lyric fm.