Betsy Hinkle

Betsy Hinkle is a Boston-based violinist equally at home on the concert stage and serving her community through equity-based education and performances. She has performed throughout New England with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the Boston Public Quartet, musiConnects Players, the Boston Ballet Orchestra and the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music. 

Betsy is a 2018-2020 META Fellow of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is proud to serve on the newly formed Anti-Racism Committee of the Boston Musicians Association. Previous honors include serving as the 2017 Alumni Commencement speaker at New England Conservatory, and receiving the 2014 Barbara C. Harris Award for Social Justice. 

Betsy founded the non-profit musiConnects in 2007 to establish and support educational and artistic residences using an innovative chamber music model. From 2007 - 2017 she served as the organization’s Executive and then Artistic Director. Betsy served as a Resident Musician and designed curricula for musiConnects until 2021.

Betsy received her Master of Music in Violin Performance, as well as a Music in Education Concentration from the New England Conservatory of Music in the studio of Nicholas Kitchen of the renowned Borromeo String Quartet. A native Floridian, she received her Bachelor of Music from the Florida State University, on full academic and music scholarships, and played in the Honors Piano Trio as a Liberace Scholar. She lives in Roslindale with her husband and two children and loves cooking, baking and gardening.