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Darby Hinshaw, horn
Darby Hinshaw is one of the most sought-after orchestral horn players in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to holding principal positions in the Santa Rosa Symphony, Stockton Symphony and Marin Symphony, he also performs regularly with nearly every professional orchestra in the greater Bay Area. He also appears frequently with the horn section of the San Francisco Symphony, with which he has done considerable work as an extra player on subscription concerts, international tours, and the orchestra’s recently completed Mahler recording project.
A native of San Francisco, Hinshaw attended the School of the Arts, a public high school for gifted performing and visual artists. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied with members of the San Francisco Symphony including Bruce Roberts, Jonathan Ring and Robert Ward. During his college years, he was a member of the highly-regarded San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, where he led the horn section during multiple European tours. The Irish Examiner praised his performance of Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony in 2001, in the infancy of his career, saying “... more poise and passion than I’ve heard from many a professional.”
Hinshaw attended Tanglewood Music Center in 2005. His career has taken him to some of the most prestigious venues in the United States and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, KKL Luzern, and the Rudolfinum Dvořák Hall in Prague. He currently resides in Vallejo with his wife and two cats.
