LeeLee Hunter was initially introduced to music, though somewhat reluctantly, through her enrollment in the church choir at the age of four; however, she grew to love it very quickly. Ms. Hunter first experienced the guitar while living in Hong Kong when her third grade teacher would play for them everyday at the end of school. She began taking lessons while

living in Hong Kong and continued when she moved back to the US. Ms. Hunter has completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music in Guitar Performance in the studio of Julian Gray at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Her teacher, Bill Dykes, first introduced Ms. Hunter to the Classical guitar and she quickly fell in love with the complexities of that genre of guitar. She studied with Mr. Dykes for seven years. In high school, she continued her studies with Berta Rojas-a concert artist and former student of Manuel Barrueco-until she began at Peabody in the fall of 2007. In addition to the guitar Ms. Hunter also studied voice and clarinet while in high school and was an active member of her school band and chorus as well as the choir and hand-bell choir at her church.

Ms. Hunter has made solo appearances at the Cincinnati Guitar Workshop and with the McLean High School Orchestra in Heitor Villa-Lobos’s “Bachianas Brasileiras.” She has also performed in master-classes with Ken Meyer of Syracuse University; Stanley Yates; Lorenzo Micheli and Matteo Mela of the Italian duo Soloduo; Bruce Holzm

an of Florida State University; and Carlos Perez.

In her spare time, when she’s not playing the guitar, Ms. Hunter enjoys going out with her friends or sometimes just watching a movie with her cat, Skittles.