Jeremy Hunt, among other things, is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley in music and new media. He specializes in the composition of new digital instruments and digitally expanded performance spaces. He is affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). His music is informed by a broad base of art and technology and is drawn from his interests which are eclectic and wide ranging, including: musical design, simplicity, interactive systems, baroque organology, the theory of musical media, free culture & free software, machine learning and artificial intelligence, psychoacoustics, media activism, improvisation, the human voice, tuning theory and temperaments, and electro-acoustic luthiery.

Hunt holds degrees in composition from UC Berkeley (PhD 2008, MA 2005) and San Francisco State University (BM, cum laude, 2002). His composition teachers have included Edmund Campion, Jorge Liderman, Cindy Cox, Josh Levine, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Ron Caltabiano. He has also studied psychoacoustics and computer music with David Wessel, improvisation with Myra Melford, and classical voice with David Gordon.

Hunt is also a dedicated pedagogue and has taught music theory, musicianship, and sight singing to students of all ages and led choruses in many different venues such as the Peninsula Girls Chorus, The Woodside School, The Nueva School, UC Berkeley, and the Jazzschool.