The Chinese Music Ensemble performance will take place on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 in Hodgson Hall at 7:30.

This will be the inaugural performance of a Chinese music ensemble based in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music directed by Vicki Lu. The performance will feature a variety of Chinese instruments but with a special focus on the bowed two stringed Erhu, the plucked zither known as Guzheng, and the Dizi, a wind instrument.

Not everybody knows what it means to Call The Dawgs, but you do. You know how it starts, you know how to bark, but above all, you know what it really means. 

Calling The Dawgs is about celebrating what happens when Bulldogs come together—we reconnect, we cheer, we win national titles—but our potential stretches far beyond Sanford Stadium. When Bulldogs come together, we innovate, we strengthen our communities, we venture into the cosmos and we build a better quality of life—for everyone.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series continues with an exciting concert by the UGA British Brass Band on April 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Hall.

The University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music is honored to announce the creation of the Don C. Gillespie Graduate Fellowship, made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Don Chance Gillespie’s estate.

UGA's ARCO Chamber Orchestra takes the Hodgson Concert Hall stage on Thursday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m., exploring different genres of chamber works, including the modern film score. The program features works by Handel, Respighi, Tchaikovsky, Schnittke. Special guest D. Ray McClellan, professor of clarinet, will join the ensemble to perform Canzona for Clarinet and String Orchestra by Sergei Taneev. 

 

The winners of the Annual Concerto Competition will perform alongside the UGA Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday, March 22nd at 7:30 in Hodgson Hall as part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is excited to continue its Faculty Artist Series with a concert featuring American mezzo soprano Elizabeth Johnson Knight on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Ramsey Hall.

Knight has performed as both a choral and solo artist. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2010 as alto soloist in Handel’s “Messiah” with Andrew Megill and the Masterwork Chorus.

Maggie Snyder, Professor of Viola, and Liza Stepanova, Associate Professor of Piano, present a very special program in celebration of Women’s History Month on Mar. 15 at 7:30 in Ramsey Hall.

“This exciting and eclectic program spans three centuries of music written by women, works for viola solo and viola with piano as well as piano solo, piano with electronics and even a work for toy piano,” said Dr. Stepanova. 

We are excited to announce that the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic have another video collaboration! "Pieces of Paper," a co-collaboration between local hip hop artist My Name Is Caulfield and composition faculty Emily Koh is live across our channels.

Join us in Hodgson Hall as the UGA Hodgson Singers, directed by Dr. Dan Bara, perform in the Ensemble Series at 7:30 on March 3rd. The sacred music of Bach anchor’s the first half of the program with one of his most festive cantata orchestrations (3 trumpets, winds, strings) as they will perform his Ascension Oratorio with faculty and student soloists, including JD Burnett, and Elizabeth Knight, and student instrumentalists.