Topping the classical music Billboard charts with his debut album, pianist Hunter Noack is also an avid outdoorsman and the founder of the groundbreaking concert series, IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild™. Presenting over 50+ concerts annually in America’s most inspiring settings, Hunter travels with a 9-foot Steinway to mountaintops, deserts, and old-growth forests. The audience listens through wireless headphones, allowing them to wander with the music as a soundtrack to their outdoor experience. Hunter has been featured on the CBS This Morning series, “A More Perfect Union,” and performed in iconic landscapes like Yosemite, Joshua Tree, and Yellowstone National Parks.
Beyond IN A LANDSCAPE, Hunter loves to collaborate with artists outside the classical realm. He has worked with dance companies (Oregon Ballet Theater, NW Dance Project, Kaatsbaan), performed around the world with Pink Martini at Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royal Albert Hall among others, and appeared with his partner Thomas Lauderdale with the National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Oregon Symphony.
Hunter grew up kayaking, fishing, and playing piano in Central Oregon. At 14, he left to study at Interlochen Arts Academy (with Stephen Perry and Yoshi Nagai). He went onto San Francisco Conservatory of Music (with Yoshi Nagai) and earned degrees from University of Southern California (B.M. with John Perry) and Guildhall School of Music and Drama (M.A. with Paul Roberts and Ronan O’Hora). Hunter returned to Oregon in 2015 and founded IN A LANDSCAPE, bringing classical music to his favorite places in the American West.