Zachary Hobin, string bass, with Alice Chenyang Xu, piano

W.A. Mozart - violin sonata no. 21 in e minor, k. 304
Kaija Saariaho - Folia
Franz Schubert - "Arpeggione" sonata d. 821

Zachary Hobin is a double bassist and educator with wide-ranging musical passions. Based out of Raleigh, NC, he is a frequent performer of orchestral, chamber, Baroque and contemporary repertoire. He has recently appeared with the Riverside Symphony and New York Symphonic Ensemble as principal bass and the North Carolina Symphony and Charleston Symphony as section bass. As a chamber musician, Zachary performs with the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, a group he co-founded with bassoonist Remy Taghavi in 2016. Zachary is a committed advocate for new music and has performed with groups such as New York's Argento Ensemble and in solo and group recitals around the world.

Alice Chenyang Xu has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, the US, Canada, and throughout China. Notable concerts include performances at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Auditorium Theatre, Corbett Auditorium in Cincinnati, Hochschule Musik Hall in Leipzig, Germany, and Jordan Hall in Boston. Xu has collaborated with artists, including violinist Anthony Marwood, cellists John Myerscough and Bonnie Hampton, soprano Lucy Shelton, baritone William Sharp, pianist Christina Dahl, Borromeo String Quartet and members of the Cleveland Quartet. She has coached with composer George Crumb on his set of piano work Makrokosmos and has played for former Secretary of State Colin Powell under the auspices of the Eisenhower Fellowships at the Northeast Asia Regional Program Seminar.