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Paul Binkley is a freelance guitarist and plucked string player. He plays concert classical guitar, jazz guitar, classical mandolin and other fretted instruments. Paul enjoys many styles of music including classical chamber music, Neapolitan songs, early music, new music, and, of course, jazz. Paul began his guitar studies in London, Ontario where he gave his first professional concerts before graduating from high school. After two years studying jazz at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Paul moved to San Francisco to complete his Bachelor of Music degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and his Master of Arts in Music degree at San Francisco State University, majoring in classical guitar performance. For the last two decades, Paul has been a freelance musician in the San Francisco Bay Area, playing jazz and classical music in all sorts of situations. After he was asked to play a mandolin part in an orchestra piece in school, Paul mastered that instrument as well, and has performed in the US and Europe and recorded five CD’s with the Modern Mandolin Quartet. Paul has performed as an ensemble player with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras, the Berkeley Symphony and many other local orchestras. Besides teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, Paul is guitar instructor at Holy Names University and Mills College in Oakland, where he was guitar soloist on the Mills College Centennial Album. Other recording credits include the San Francisco Symphony recordings of Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' (mandolin) and Mahler’s Seventh Symphony (guitar) with Michael Tilson Thomas. In the theater world, Paul has performed for ACT’s production of The Dead (James Joyce), Curran Theater’s Les Miserables, and Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel.
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