Composed in celebration of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra’s 60th season, Resonance | Rush | Ride invokes the head-over-heels, euphoric delight of falling in love with orchestral music. The piece opens with a cinematic expression of ‘love at first sound,’ blossoming into a lush, warm, lyrical Resonance. Through a Rush of excitement, the orchestra gains momentum, dancing and spinning into an expansive, soaring, and playful celebration of symphonic sound—a joyful Ride.

Born on a cattle ranch in the desert of eastern California, composer Jessica Hunt received her Doctorate in Music in 2019 at the University of Michigan, under a Regency Fellowship. Hunt states that her primary objective is "...to seek emotional resonance in the rhetorical dialogue between herself, the audience, and the performer, by creating eclectic works that explore the aural and syntactical intersections between theater, narrative, sound, truth and fiction."

Hunt is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.