An evening of cello music will be presented by David Starkweather, professor of cello at UGA for four decades, appearing with faculty collaborative pianist Damon Denton.  The program will include favorite masterworks of Bach, Brahms, and Debussy, as well as several etudes and caprices of special interest to Dr. Starkweather's cello students.  Starkweather and Denton have collaborated on numerous past occasions, and this promises to be a lovely performance.

For tickets: https://pac.uga.edu/event/david-starkweather-cello/

Shaun brings over twenty years of public relations and graphic design experience to his role as Director of Public Relations for the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. He served as Marketing Coordinator for the Sabes Jewish Community Center in Minneapolis, MN where he received an Award for Excellence in Communications from the JCC Association of North America.

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and Athens favorite Kishi Bashi has carved out a unique place for himself in America’s diverse sonic landscape. With a musical vocabulary drawing from indie pop, rock, beatboxing, vocal looping, and even classical violin, he defies easy categorization yet has achieved international appeal. 

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and Athens favorite Kishi Bashi has carved out a unique place for himself in America’s diverse sonic landscape. With a musical vocabulary drawing from indie pop, rock, beatboxing, vocal looping, and even classical violin, he defies easy categorization yet has achieved international appeal. 

Following its recent premiere with the St. Louis Symphony, his new orchestral show comes to Hodgson Concert Hall Thurs., Oct. 6 for an unforgettable night of music featuring songs from his catalogue and selections from EO9066, his powerful work about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The concert, featuring the UGA Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Mark Cedel, is a coproduction of UGA Presents and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 

Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym for violin virtuoso K Ishibashi. Kishi Bashi released his first full-length album 151a via Joyful Noise in 2012, which received high praise and the title of NPR's Best New Artist of The Year. Omoiyari is Kishi Bashi’s fourth album, and his most important yet. Many of the songs were initially inspired by history and oppression, and he deftly weaves tales of love, loss, and wanting to connect listeners to the past. Omoiyari is an uncompromising musical statement on the turbulent sociopolitical atmosphere of present-day America, lauded by NPR for its “profound empathy” and the New York Times for its “hand played yet exquisitely polished” qualities.

Over the last several years, K has traveled frequently to Montana and Wyoming to work on a “song film” version of Omoiyari about Japanese internment. It has been an emotional and creatively potent experience for him to spend time in the American West, speaking with internment camp incarcerees and descendants. Considering his own bicultural identity as the child of Japanese immigrants has come to influence Kishi Bashi’s approach to songwriting. 

Kishi Bashi’s performance is part of a UGA Presents slate of roots and indie concerts.

The concert on Tuesday, Oct.

The concert on Tuesday, Oct. 4, entitled "How Can I Keep from Singing?", will feature performances of the Glee Clubs and Hodgson Singers, Sarah Frook Gallo and Daniel Bara, conductors.  This the first time these choirs will perform in concert on campus without masks since the spring of 2020.  The pieces will be varied in style, and include themes expressing despair and hope, romantic love, female empowerment, and the joys and rewards of hard work.  All three choirs are comprised of singers who are music majors and non-music-majors.  Some represented composers include Sulpitia Cesis, Sarah Quartel, Ernesto Herrera, Elaine Hagenberg, Ruthie Foster, Jester Hairston, Z. Randall Stroope, Alexandra Olsavsky, and Andrea Ramsey.

The UGA Symphonic Band, directed by Michael C. Robinson with Jeremy Smith and Molly Blair, performs classic wind band repertoire in their first concert of the year, Wednesday, September 28. The program includes music by Jack Stamp, David Gillingham, John Barnes Chance, John Philip Sousa, Samuel Hazo, and Johan de Meij.

The UGA Symphonic Band, directed by Michael C. Robinson with Jeremy Smith and Molly Blair, performs classic wind band repertoire in their first concert of the year, Wednesday, September 28. The program includes music by Jack Stamp, David Gillingham, John Barnes Chance, John Philip Sousa, Samuel Hazo, and Johan de Meij.



Admission is free to the 7:30 concert in UGA Performing Arts Center's Hodgson Concert Hall. The event will also be live-streamed: https://www.music.uga.edu/performing-arts-center-live-streaming. The Symphonic Band is the largest of the three year-round wind bands in the Hodgson School. Students representing a wide array of academic disciplines perform four concerts each academic year.

Michael Heald and Anatoly Sheludyakov will present a recital of violin and piano music at the Ramsey Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Center on September 19 at 7:30pm.This is part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s Faculty Recital Series.They will perform sonatas by Mozart, Amy Beach, and Edward Elgar.

Michael Heald and Anatoly Sheludyakov will present a recital of violin and piano music at the Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center on September 19 at 7:30pm.This is part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s Faculty Recital Series.They will perform sonatas by Mozart, Amy Beach, and Edward Elgar. Audiences may be less familiar with the works of Beach and Elgar, but they are both wonderful examples of music of the second half of the romantic era, full of expression and personal emotional gesture in combination with virtuosity and dramatic flair. Tickets are $12 for adults and $3 for children and students and are available from the UGA Performing Arts Center.