Event Series:
Artist Faculty Recital
Zachary Hobin, double bass
September 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Zachary Hobin is a performer and educator with wide-ranging passions. He is a regular guest of the symphonies of North Carolina, Charlotte and Charleston. A dedicated chamber musician, Zachary works with groups including Silicon Valley Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Charleston and Electric Earth Concerts, and is a co-founder and co-director of the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival. He is a committed advocate for new music and has performed with groups such as New York’s Argento Ensemble and in solo recitals around the world.
One of Zachary’s passions is to spread the joy of music to those who wish to learn more about it. He currently serves as the Visiting Assistant Professor of String Bass at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Zachary has previously been appointed to the faculty of Duke University’s music department and its pre-college String School. In the summer he teaches and performs at the Luzerne Music Center in New York’s Adirondack region. Additionally, Zachary has presented masterclasses around the country and world, including a sustained engagement with community music schools in Ecuador and Bolivia.
Zachary has toured with various groups in Japan, China, Singapore, and on both coasts and has worked with musicians such as John Zorn, Kaija Saariaho, Colin Carr, Branford Marsalis, Jeffery Milarsky, George Manahan, Claire Chase, and the JACK Quartet. Former teachers include Kurt Muroki, Thomas Sperl, Rachel Calin, Peter Dominguez, and Kate Nettleman.
Zachary received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University in double bass performance. He also holds a Masters from Stony Brook and a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory. Zachary performs on a ca.1750 Italian double bass and a Victor Fetique French bow.
Described by The Boston Musical Intelligencer as “incisive and with innate musicality,” pianist Alice Chenyang Xu has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, USA, Canada, and throughout China. Notable concerts include solo performances and recitals at Chicago Symphony Hall, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center, Corbett Auditorium in Cincinnati, Hochschule Musik Hall in Leipzig, Germany, and Jordan Hall in Boston; concerto performances in Chicago Auditorium Theatre, JIAOZI Concert Hall, and Chengdu Concert Hall in China; and chamber music performances at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Dorflinger Glass Museum, Lincoln Center, and Boston Symphony Hall.
Xu has appeared in various summer music festival around the world including Yellowbarn, Internationale Mendelssohn-Akademie, Art of Piano, and Morningside Music Bridge and has collaborated with Borromeo String Quartet and members of the Cleveland Quartet, violinist Anthony Marwood, cellists John Myerscough and Bonnie Hampton, soprano Lucy Shelton, baritone William Sharp, pianist Christina Dahl and the Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM). Xu has worked directly with composers George Crumb, Jörg Widmann, Shulamit Ran, Helen Grime, and Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, and performed for former Secretary of State Colin Powell under the auspices of the Eisenhower Fellowships.
Xu serves as the artistic director of Music on the Hills concert series in Quincy, MA and helps raise money for various causes and people in need. Her piano duo Xubergwith her husband Miles Fellenberg has been actively performing in the east coast area such as Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and more. They edited/rearranged the four-hands version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 by Hugo Ulrich and premiered it in 2021.
As an active educator, Xu has been teaching since 2006 and has taught at various music schools in Chicago and Boston. Xu also conducts an annual private piano workshop at Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. She was invited to give a lecture recital on music education and collaborative piano at the Consulate General of the United States, Chengdu in 2019.
Xu was a recipient of the Dorothy Hinton-Congleton Memorial Presidential Scholarship, second prize-winner of the 10th Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, third prize-winner of the 2nd SEILER International Piano Competition in Germany, winner of 2012 Chicago College of Performing Arts Solo Competition and Concerto Competition, winner of 2018 Borromeo Artist Award and 2020 Honors Ensemble Program at NEC.
Xu graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and Roosevelt University and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from New England Conservatory of Music. Xu oversees Piano for Non-Majors class at New England Conservatory and she serves on the piano faculty of Tufts University.
Free
