Brett Michael Hunter is a 20-year-old tenor from Charleston, South Carolina. He studied with Harold Meers at the College of Charleston and will continue his undergraduate studies this fall at the Curtis Institute of Music under Jack LiVigni. He is a recent winner of both the Schmidt Vocal Arts Undergraduate Awards and the Heafner/Williams Vocal Competition. Recent performances include Colombello (Il Re), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Parpignol (La bohème), Marius (Les Misérables), and Raoul (The Phantom of the Opera). On the concert stage, he has appeared as the tenor soloist in Finzi’s Dies Natalis, Bach’s Cantata BWV 140, and Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel. In the summer of 2024, Brett was a Studio Artist at the Music Academy of the West. He also participated in Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy in spring 2025. This summer, he joins the Aspen Music Festival and School as an AOTVA Studio Artist, where he sings Parpignol in Puccini's La bohème and performs as Samana II in the world premiere of Siddhartha, She, a new oratorio by Christopher Theofanidis and Melissa Studdard.