Dr. William H. Hinkie III is a teacher of violin, viola, and cello for the New Millenium Conservatory for Strings in Lafayette, Colorado. He is also the principal violist of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra and is also a substitute violist with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and the Boulder Philharmonic . Previous to moving to Colorado he was the conductor for the Tyler Preparatory Orchestra and director of the Tyler Youth Orchestra Chamber Music Program in Tyler, TX.  In addition to this, Mr. Hinkie was a Kirshbaum strings teacher at the Caldwell Arts Academy and All-Saints Episcopal School. Dr. Hinkie has also served on the teaching faculties of Tyler Junior College and Kilgore College. During the summers, Dr. Hinkie is an artist faculty member at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI.  Past teaching experiences include the faculties of the Cleveland Institute of Music Preperator Department, Artist-in-Residence at the Cleveland School of the Arts, Orchestra Director in the Memphis City Schools, Orchestra Director for the Hopkins Independet School District in Hopkins, MN and faculty member of the St. Joseph School of Music in St. Paul, MN. In addition to this, Dr. Hinkie has also coached chamber music at the Perlman Music program where he worked with world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman.

As a performer, Dr. Hinkie has been a member of the Shreveport Symphony, the Longview Symphony and was a principal violist for the Orchestra of the Pines. He was also a member of the Tyler Classical Consort chamber music players.  In addition to this Dr. Hinkie has also served as assistant principal violist with the Aspen Festival Orchestra as well as section violist with the Akron and Baton Rouge symphonies.

Dr. Hinkie has an undergraduate degree in music education with an emphasis in violin performance from Louisiana State University where he studied with Sally O'Reilly.  He then obtained a Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music in viola performance where he studied viola with Heidi Castleman and chamber music with the Cavani String Quartet. Dr. Hinkie studied viola at the University of Minnesota with Thomas Turner and Korey Konkol as well as chamber music with Thomas Rosenberg.  In addition to this, Dr. Hinkie was a four-time fellowship recipient to the Aspen Music School where he was a teaching assistant to the team teaching studio of Heidi Castleman, Ellen Rose, and Victoria Chiang.