Timothy Rinehart

Tim Rinehart will begin his professional orchestral career in 2025 as the Principal Double Bassist of the Oregon Symphony. 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tim began his musical journey on the piano and the clarinet before beginning his study of the double bass at age 12. He studied with Leonid Finkelshteyn, Principal Bassist of the North Carolina Symphony. 

Tim earned his Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance in 2024 from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studied with Paul Ellison. He also received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. 

Rinehart has spent summers at several of the world’s leading music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, Music Academy of the West, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Tim has performed with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of world renowned conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Stéphane Denève, Juraj Valčuha, Andris Nelsons, Dima Slobodeniouck, Alan Gilbert, and Susanna Mälkki. 

In 2025, Rinehart was named the winner of the International Society of Bassists Orchestral Division Competition. As a soloist, he has performed concertos by Koussevitzky, Dragonetti, and Vanhal. In 2022, he won the Les Violons du Roy Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition in Québec, Canada. 

Outside of music, Tim is an avid disc golfer and looks forward to relocating to the Pacific Northwest and exploring Oregon’s scenic disc golf courses.