Teachers
Meet the teachers
Hunter Music Academy is led by Micah and Jane Hunter in Weston, with Callum Allinson teaching guitar in Singleton.
More tutors coming soon!
Skilled • patient • encouraging
Micah Hunter
Clear foundations, sight-reading, and independence with calm, practical guidance.
Location
Weston, NSW
Instruments
Experience & training
- Piano Grade 8 AMEB
- Piano AMusA in progress
- Teaching piano for 6.5 years
- 50+ piano students taught with patient, consistent long-term guidance
Teaching approach
- Calm environment, clear structure, enthusiastic progress, patient encouragement
- Emphasis on musicianship and musical independence
- Training well-rounded pianists who love their craft
Personal touches
- Favourite composer/musician
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Currently listening to
- Tommy Emmanuel's It's Never Too Late
- Currently playing
- Beethoven Piano Sonata Pathetique
- Teaching superpower
- Patience and consistency
Warm • fun • creative
Jane Hunter
A supportive vibe that helps students feel safe, capable, and motivated.
Location
Weston, NSW
Instruments
Experience & training
- Teaching music for 6.5 years
- 250+ students taught across private lessons and school programs
- Casual tutor with Sydney Youth Orchestra and The Arts Unit (Bandlink)
- Conductor of an intermediate community band for 6.5 years
Teaching approach
- Fun, gentle, motivating vibe that keeps students engaged
- Student-led repertoire within a structured plan
- Fostering competent musicians with a lifelong love of music
Personal touches
- Favourite composer/musician
- Roo Panes
- Currently listening to
- Roo Panes' The Summer Isles
- Currently playing
- "Experience" by Ludovico Einaudi
- Teaching superpower
- Je ne sais quoi
Relational • practical • student-centred
Callum Allinson
Relational, teacher-directed lessons based around student interests.
Location
Singleton, NSW
Instruments
Experience & training
- Primary and high school teacher for 6 years
- Head of the sound ministry at Singleton Baptist Church for 3 years
- Bachelor of Education (Primary)
- Higher School Certificate Musicology Honours List
- Experienced in teaching individuals music and audio concepts, and training volunteers for audio processing
Teaching approach
- Relational, teacher-directed lessons built around student interests
- Encouraging, structured lessons with repertoire shaped around each student's interests and goals
- Emphasis on practical musicianship, listening skills, and musical independence
Personal touches
- Favourite composer/musician
- Jon Bellion
- Currently listening to
- Jon Bellion's Why
- Currently playing
- Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
- Teaching superpower
- Approaching guitar from an audio engineer's perspective and audio engineering from a guitarist's perspective
Teach with HMA
More tutors coming soon!
We’re keeping the public teacher list to our current Weston and Singleton team while additional tutors are still in the onboarding stage. If you’d like to teach with HMA yourself, you can view the current contractor tutor opportunity here.
Our teaching philosophy
Teaching for musical independence, taste, and a lasting love of the craft
We want students to become musicians in their own right: thoughtful, capable, creative, and able to make music with confidence beyond the lesson room. Technique and reading matter, but they serve a bigger goal: forming people who love their craft and can fill the world with excellent music.
We also work to nurture each student's own love for music by placing beautiful, worthwhile repertoire in front of them, and by giving them music to listen to as well as music to play. Over time, that shapes not only skill, but musical taste, curiosity, and delight.
Guiding idea
"For a lifelong love of music"
What that looks like
- Independent musicianship, not just lesson-to-lesson progress
- Excellent repertoire that trains both the hands and the ear
- Students growing in taste, confidence, and joy as musicians
Ready to start?
Book a trial lesson and we’ll suggest a clear next step.