The international award-winning Hodgson Singers is UGA’s premiere choral ensemble made up of many of the university’s most talented and dedicated singers.  Students are eligible for membership in Hodgson Singers only after participating in one of the other UGA choral ensembles for at least one semester and passing a thorough audition process.  

In 2014, the UGA Hodgson Singers won the prestigious International Choral Competition Ave Verum in Baden, Austria. The choir took "Grand Prix Ave Verum," the competition's top prize, out of 10 selected choirs from the US, Italy, Hungary, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Austria, and the Philippines.  Judges were from Austria, Finland, Germany, Spain, and the US.

The Hodgson Singers is primarily made up of advanced undergraduate and graduate student singers.  Because of its more rigorous schedule of rehearsals and performances both on and off-campus throughout the year, this ensemble requires students to make a full-year commitment. The Hodgson Singers perform under the direction of Dr. Daniel Bara.

In addition to expressing your interest in a choir via the UGA Choirs website, students should sign-up for a brief placement hearing.

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Join us for a FREE event celebrating the mission of Chamber Music Athens: bringing together guest artists, UGA faculty and students, and the Athens community for intense and inspiring musical collaboration. Distinguished guest artists, Emily Daggett Smith, violin and William Ransom, piano, join UGA faculty and students in Max Bruch’s gorgeous and brilliant String Octet, Johannes Brahms’s profound Clarinet Trio, and Claude Debussy’s joyous Little Suite.

DICKIE LEE 
Assistant Professor of Music Theory

April 22, 2023: Presented his paper “Intertextual Rhetoric in Recent Popular Music” at the New England Conference of Music Theorists, a regional music theory society meeting that occurred this year at Yale’s School of Music.

Join us this upcoming Tuesday for our Spring 2023 Tuba Euphonium Ensemble Concert! The ensemble is directed by Dr. Matthew Shipes, Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, and will feature works by W.A. Mozart, Franz Biebl, Jean Sibelius, Ben Miles, Paul Holmes and Kenyon Wilson. We hope to see you there!

Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves earned a D.M. degree in Guitar Performance and Music Literature from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a M.M. degree in Guitar Performance from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University and a B.M. degree in Guitar Performance from the University of Brasília (UnB- Universidade de Brasília), in his native country Brazil. At Marshall, Dr. Alves is responsible for overseeing the guitar area teaching applied lessons, guitar literature, guitar pedagogy, guitar techniques, fretboard harmony, and directing the M.U. Guitar Ensemble. Outside of the guitar area, he also teaches music styles, music theory and aural skills. He regularly performs as a solo player, as a member of the Violauta Duo, the Duo Alves, the Violautalino Trio, and in other chamber music settings. His programs feature music from various ethnicities and historical periods. In the past, he was a member of the Duo Grilo-Ribeiro, with guitarist Eustáquio Grilo, and the Duo Caesar, with guitarist Júlio de Alexandria Cruz. He has performed in diverse venues in countries such as Brazil, USA, Costa Rica, Spain, and Italy.