Double bassist Zachary Hobin is an artist-pedagogue and arts leader whose work spans orchestral performance, chamber music, and community-facing musical entrepreneurship. As a performer, he regularly works with major regional ensembles, including the North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, and Charleston Symphony. His past orchestral credits include work with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Riverside Symphony. For the 2025–26 season, he has been invited to perform mainstage operas with The Atlanta Opera, and he serves as principal double bass of the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle. In chamber music and festival settings, Hobin has appeared with Luzerne Music Center, Chamber Music Charleston, Silicon Valley Chamber Music Festival, among other series and residencies. His contemporary-music work includes performances with Argento Ensemble, including repertoire presented at Carnegie Hall.

A committed educator, Hobin serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of String Bass at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he teaches undergraduate double bassists and electric bassists, leads studio and repertoire classes for both instruments, recruits prospective students, and coaches PopTech ensembles and chamber groups. He is also instructor of double bass and chamber music at Duke University, where he teaches weekly lessons, leads orchestra sectionals, and coaches chamber music projects. In addition, he teaches at the Duke University String School and maintains an active private studio in Raleigh, guiding students toward all-state, summer festival, competition, and college-audition success.

Hobin is Co-Director of the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, where he organizes and manages the annual multi-week festival each August—booking venues, hiring musicians, scheduling rehearsals, and curating thematically consistent programs that highlight the festival’s personnel. He also collaborates with the board and donors on fundraising and audience development, produces outreach events, and supports commissioning for the festival ensemble As a clinician, Hobin regularly presents masterclasses, sectionals, and outreach for college, honors-festival, and public-school programs. His recent service includes creating G♮Chamber Music Concerts (a faculty–student collaborative series) and coordinating a string area practice challenge at UNC Greensboro.

Hobin earned the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music from Stony Brook University, following undergraduate study at Oberlin Conservatory. His doctoral thesis, “Density, Distortion and Delay,” explores analytical approaches to shaping a performance of Kaija Saariaho’s Folia. His work has been supported by grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Anne Arundel County Arts Council, among others, and he has published new audition-repertoire editions through the North Carolina Music Educators Association for all-state and regional-orchestra use.