Robbie Lynn Hunsinger had an illustrious career as a classical oboist before becoming a pioneer in cutting edge installation work and performance. She was an obbligato soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, toured France as an oboe d'amore soloist with The Robert Shaw Institute and toured Europe with the Chicago and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. Hunsinger dove into Chicago’s free jazz experience in the 90's. She added Chinese and Indian oboes to her quiver as well as single reeded and invented horns. She studied composition and improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell as a Resident Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and was featured in duets with Evan Parker at Chicago's Empty Bottle Festival and FMP Festival. She played the Chicago Jazz Festival and World Music Festivals with Tatsu Aoki and performed with Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, Davu Seru, Avreeayl Ra, Harrison Bankhead and Fred Lomberg-Holm. Her “Trio” recording with Tatsu and legendary Art Ensemble member Joseph Jarman garnered a 4 star review from Downbeat Magazine and was featured on several top 10 playlists.

Hunsinger has taught for decades and held positions at Fisk University, Watkins School of Art, Northern Illinois University, Elmhurst College and North Park University. She has taught students of all ages and has been a visiting teaching artist at University of Tennessee, Tennessee Tech and Georgia Tech. She has been a presenter at IdeaFest Bowling Green 2022, Youngstown University, Eastern Tennessee State, ITP Camp at NYU, at the Performing Arts Exchange in Orlando and at Chamber Music America's 2020 Conference in New York.

Her interactive installations have been exhibited at the Frist Art Museum, Georgia Tech Ferst Center, ISEA Chicago, Chicago's Thomas Blackman Gallery, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently working with Daily Tous Les Jours on a project for Mill RIdge Park and is co-creator of the VR experience Bought/Broken which has won several awards including a Diverse Gamers Grant from the International Game Developers Association. Her immersive audiovisual experience "Blue-Yellow-Red" at Nashville’s Frist Center for Visual Art won a “Best of Year” acknowledgement from Burnaway Magazine and was written up in Make Magazine. Her trans-media chamber music and installations include robotics, live projections, hacked game controllers and audience participation. Her public artwork “Constellation” was commissioned by Nashville's Metro Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and "Eclipse," a sound-responsive multimedia chamber work was commission by chatterbird. Currently based in Nashville and Chicago