Alumnus Brandon Quarles (BMus ’15) will begin his role as Lecturer in Saxophone and Allied Areas in July at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Quarles will co-direct the saxophone studio in applied instruction and chamber music, and teach courses in related areas for the HHSOM.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music will hold its 2021 Commencement Ceremony in the Arts Quad on Thursday, may 13that 6 pm.

The ceremony will be streamed live via our Facebook page and you can tune-in here.

The program is available here.

Requiem Project Premiere

"Still All My Song Shall Be: A 2020 Requiem," a 30-minute Requiem in 6 movements, composed by six graduate student composers and performed by the UGA Symphony Orchestra, Hodgson Singers, and members of the Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble will premiere tomorrow May 4th at 6 p.m. across our channels.



The Requiem Project was commissioned in summer 2020 by anonymous donors in memory of their friend Peggy Suddreth.

 

ATHFEST EDUCATES ANNOUNCES SPECIAL PROJECT, COLLABORATION

Seven of Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s most talented students perform solos in Hodgson Hall as part of the annual Concerto Competition, which is a longstanding tradition of the Hodgson School. Music students from all areas may compete. Students must learn a concerto, then perform it for a faculty judges panel. This year the Concerto Competition returns virtually in a two-night concert premiere on April 27th and 28th at 7 p.m. via YouTube.

April 23, 2021

Laurier appoints new dean of the Faculty of Music

The Orpheus Chamber Singers announce the appointment of J.D. Burnett to the position of Artistic Director, effective January 1, 2022. Dr. Burnett will assume the position after the retirement of Orpheus's founder, Donald Krehbiel.

Join us on Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m. as the UGA Symphony Orchestra performs The Carnival of the Animals, a Suite by Camille Saint-Saëns, live from Hodgson Hall.



The Carnival of the Animals is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The work was written for private performance by an ad hoc ensemble of two pianos and other instruments.

The UGA Opera Theatre will be presenting a semi-staged concert with piano and singers of operatic duets, trios, and quartets.