Robert Huntington is an educator, performer, and an award-winning composer who has been serving as the Director of Instrumental Music at a middle school in his hometown of Livermore, CA for 5 years. He also is the Vice-President of the Pleasanton Community Concert Band, and serves as the Winds & Percussion Director for the Livermore-Amador Summer Youth Orchestra. This year he is joining the Contra Costa Wind Symphony on tuba as a regular member and he occasionally performs with other local groups like the Livermore-Amador Symphony. Huntington also runs a very small business designing and composing instrumental music curriculum for bands & orchestras across the country called "Huntington Music Education".

Robert began his journey into music as a child with his Mother teaching him a little piano, guitar, and singing with him. In school he started in choir, moved to violin, and then to trumpet as he went into middle school. By the end of middle school he swapped finally to the tuba.

In 2026 he was commissioned to compose a piece celebrating the City of Livermore's 150th anniversary for the Livermore-Amador Summer Youth Orchestra. In 2020 he won the Oklahoma Youth Winds Composition Competition with what became the first movement of his suite for band. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Composition in 2020 and earned his Master of Music in Music Education in 2022, both from University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music.

Outside of music he enjoys cooking, playing video games and a certain TCG, biking, and practicing martial arts. He earned his 1st degree black belt in Kempo in 2013. 

"Green and the Golden" - Commission for the City of Livermore's 150th Anniversary for the Livermore-Amador Summer Youth Orchestra. (Full Orchestra - 2026)

"Prelude" - Oklahoma Youth Winds Composition Competition Winner (Concert Band - 2020)