DaXun Zhang

Bassist DaXun Zhang has performed at La Jolla SummerFest, the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati, Colorado’s Strings in the Mountains Music Festival, and the Vancouver Recital Society. As an orchestral soloist, he has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Columbus Philharmonic, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle. He has given recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Kravis Center, the University of Georgia, Missouri State University, and the Embassy Series of Washington, D.C. The first double bass player to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, DaXun Zhang was awarded the Claire Tow Prize, which sponsored his Young Concert Artists New York debut, and the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize, which supported his Washington debut at the Kennedy Center. DaXun Zhang is a member of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two program, has served on the faculty of Northwestern University, and was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Double Bass at the University of Texas at Austin.