Barbara Bingham-Deutscher has performed regularly with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra, and The Filarmonica de las Americas in Mexico City. She has soloed with orchestras throughout the United States and in England, Scotland, Spain, and Costa Rica, and has won the prestigious Los Angeles Horn Club Competition.
Prior to joining The Phoenix Symphony in 1986 as associate principal horn, Barbara was a member of the Honolulu Symphony for nine seasons. While in Hawaii, she taught horn at the University of Hawaii. In her "free" time, she trained seals and dolphins for the Waikiki Aquarium, Sea Life Park, and Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Lab. Barbara performed as principal horn with The Phoenix Symphony from 1991 through 2001.
Barbara studied horn with Vincent DeRosa and James Decker while earning her bachelor's of music degree cum laude at the University of Southern California School of Music. She also studied with Frank Brouk, William Lane, Ralph Lockwood, and Arthur David Krehbiel.
Barbara performed as principal horn in The Flagstaff Festival of the Arts and the Mainly Mozart Festival. She has performed in concerts of the Sedona Chamber Music Festival as a member of the Festival Woodwind Quintet, and with members of the Stanford String Quartet in the Brahms: Horn Trio, op.40, and also played principal horn in the quartet's presentation of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. Barbara resides in Ahwatukee, Arizona with her husband, Kevin Deutscher, their daughter, Jennifer, and a menagerie of animals that includes two horses and a 24-year-old parrot that whistles orchestral excerpts.