Julia Hunt will make her New York debut this March at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall as the first-place winner of the Center for Contemporary Opera’s 1999 international competition for opera singers. Her operatic roles have included the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Mimi in La Boheme, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Eurydice in Orpheus and Eurydice, and Pamina in The Magic Flute. She also has experience in musical theater and cabaret, including singing the role of Maria in West Side Story and performing at numerous cabaret venues in New York and California, most recently at the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Third Annual West Coast Cabaret Convention. She is currently a doctoral candidate in voice at Indiana University under Martina Arroyo, having received her Masters Degree there and her B.A. from Stanford University.