The UGA Chamber Music Society is a student run organization designed to help undergraduate students of all majors continue their passion for music by forming music ensembles and performing throughout the community. This is accomplished by providing students a platform to gain invaluable performance experience and also share live music to the Athens community, performing in such venues as retirement homes, hospitals, weddings, receptions, cocktail hours, and holiday festivities.



For more information, visit the UGA Chamber Music Society website.

The University of Georgia Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (CCE) is a performance group composed of graduate and undergraduate students. Since 1979 the ensemble has focused on the performance of modern masterworks and recent music. The ensemble has performed at many major metropolitan centers in the Eastern and Southeastern United States, including Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; the Society of Composers, Inc. National Convention in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and Atlanta, Georgia. During the last two years the ensemble has focused on a new campus concert series entitled UGA Concerts 1900+. Featured composers include Dominick Argento, George Crumb, Meyer Kupferman, Leo Smit, Erik Satie, Ned Rorem, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ohana, Huang Ruo, John Cage, and UGA composers Adrian P. Childs and Leonard V. Ball, Jr.

The University of Georgia Steel Band serves as a popular ambassador to the Athens music community and the public at large.  Made up of traditional steel pans from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the Steel Band is accompanied by electric bass, congas, drumset, and auxiliary percussion.

The steel band has served as artists-in-residence throughout Georgia, performing at numerous arts festivals and colleges throughout the southeast.  The group has also appeared at the Georgia Music Educators Association conference, various days of percussion, and many other events.

For information about other upcoming performances or to schedule a performance by the UGA Steel Band, please contact Timothy Adams, Jr..

Lineage Percussion, coached by Timothy Adams Jr. and Ms. Kimberly Toscano, was founded in 2014 by Trevor Barroero, Lauren Floyd, and Wesley Sumpter in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. 

​In 2016, Lineage Percussion was a bronze medalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition becoming the first percussion group in the 43-year history of the competition to be a finalist in the senior division.  Before this, the trio was a semifinalist of both the Coltman Chamber Competition and the 2015 Fischoff Competition and was a third-place winner at the Percussive Arts Society’s Chamber Competition.  Passionate about supporting new works by contemporary composers, Lineage Percussion has commissioned and premiered over a dozen new works for percussion trio.  Endorsed as educational artists with Mike Balter Mallets and Remo Drumheads, they have presented clinics and performed recitals for elementary schools, high schools, retirement communities, and private organizations around the state of Georgia.

Deeply rooted in a rich history of orchestral percussion play, Lineage Percussion seeks to preserve and expand upon the traditions and style of percussion performance set forth by their teachers and their teacher’s teachers.  This balance of innovation and duplication results in the trio’s distinctive sound.  Whether they are playing marimbas, snare drums, bongos, or household objects, their identical training results in a uniform approach to each and every percussion instrument.



Trevor Barroero, gold medalist of over half-a-dozen concerto competitions, most recently won the Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy’s concerto competition which resulted in an invitation to travel to Russia this upcoming winter to perform as guest timpanist/percussionist with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.  A native of Tucson, Arizona, Trevor has performed as a soloist with nearly every major orchestra in Southern Arizona including the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Tucson Pops, the Civic Orchestra of Tucson, the University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra, and the Tucson Philharmonia Youth Orchestra.  Trevor has been a featured guest performer on the Tucson Morning Blend television show and on the KXCI “Locals Only” radio broadcast.  He was a selected participant of the Aspen Music Festival for two consecutive summers and has attended the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar, the Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Institute.  Trevor performs as substitute timpanist with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and as substitute percussionist with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and the Sierra Vista Symphony.  A Flinn Scholar, Trevor is currently completing his final year of undergraduate studies at the University of Arizona as he pursues a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance.  For more information visit: www.trevorbarroero.com



Lauren Floyd is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in percussion performance at the University of Maryland. Lauren has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, performing as 2nd timpanist alongside Jauvon Gilliam on their benefit concert for the ADL.  In 2015, Lauren was selected to participate in the Brevard Music Center's Summer Festival. She has served as principal percussionist of the UGA Wind Ensemble and UGA Symphony Orchestra and as principal timpanist of the Fountain Inn Symphony Orchestra. Lauren was the recipient of the Erica Stoffel-Murray Scholarship, a performance-based scholarship. She has performed with several chamber groups at the University of Georgia, including the UGA Percussion Ensemble, Steel Band, New Music Ensemble, and the Modular Ensemble. Lauren has also presented master classes at Dickerson Middle School and Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia.



Wesley Sumpter is finishing his last year of undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia in Percussion Performance. He has performed as substitute timpanist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and was a semifinalist in the 2014 and 2015 Atlanta Modern Snare Drum Competition.  He has performed as extra percussion with the Louisiana Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra Augusta and the Albany Symphony in Georgia.  Wesley has attended the Eastern Music Festival and Aspen Music Festival and School and he was a drummer on VH1’s feature film, Drumline 2: A New Beat. An avid drumset player, Wesley has performed as a studio drummer and freelancer throughout Athens and Atlanta, Georgia.  He has played with artists such as Macy Gray and has performed as a member of various bands including Bridges (Folk/Rock) and Mister Tie Dye (Funk/Fusion). When in Atlanta, Wesley teaches at Benjamin E. Mays High School.

Percussion Ensemble

Under the leadership of co-directors Timothy Adams, Jr. and Kimberly Toscano Adams, the University of Georgia Percussion Ensemble has gained notoriety in the collegiate percussion community. The group has performed extensively throughout the Southeast, including numerous appearances at the Georgia Music Educator's Association state conventions and appearances at various "Day of Percussion" programs. The Percussion Ensemble has also been featured on the Second Thursday Concert Series, the subscription concert series of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

As champions of contemporary music, the Percussion Ensemble has been charged with world premieres of several important new works, including Song of Middle Earth by Daniel McCarthy, commissioned directly for the UGA percussion studio and performed by the Ensemble with Michael Burritt.

The Southern Wind Quintet is a graduate chamber music ensemble established in 1999 at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. The Quintet represents some of the finest instrumental musicianship on campus, and frequently appears in UGA recitals and televised campus events.  They have also been invited to perform in concert series throughout the southeast and can be heard on local radio broadcasts and promotional CDs.

Recently, the ensemble has begun to collaborate with other disciplines, including ballet, to provide unique artistic experiences to audiences. 

Each semester, several small groups of various sizes make up the University of Georgia Saxophone Chamber Music Program, including quartets and the UGA Saxophone Ensemble.  The Saxophone Ensemble is the largest of these groups, with the studio performing some of the best original and transcribed literature on the entire saxophone family: sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass. 

Chamber music allows saxophone students at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music to grow artistically and technically on their instruments, as they learn to rehearse on their own and rely on their own ears and minds to sculpt the music.  Students will also develop critical life skills in the areas of leadership, independent thinking and communication.  The saxophone chamber music program instills a greater sense of community within the studio and is often where individual identities begin to emerge.

The UGA Bassoon Ensemble, directed by Amy Pollard, performs actively on and off campus. Consisting of bassoon majors and non-majors, the group offers the opportunity for students to make high-quality music with other bassoonists.

The Ensemble has performed at conferences of the Georgia Music Educators Association, the Southeastern Composers League, and the International Double Reed Society, and programs bassoon ensemble literature as well as frequent musical arrangements by its own members.

The British Brass Band is UGA’s newest brass and percussion ensemble. Its instrumentation, which is standard for brass bands around the world, is…

Because of the conical nature of these brass instruments, the sound of the band is more lush and mellow than the typical orchestral brass ensemble. The exception is the trombone section, which acts as the trumpet sound of the band. With these attributes, the brass band can play from the most intimate to the most dynamic and vibrant of colors. Our repertoire encompasses a wide variety of styles including excellent original works, marvelous transcriptions of orchestral works, as well as marches and other light pieces. The original brass band works will feature British composers such as Holst and Elgar, moving through the timeline to Eric Ball and Wilfred Heaton, to current composers such as Kenneth Downie, Peter Graham, Kevin Norbury, and Philip Spark. As the brass band is now flourishing in the United States, we will also feature American composers such as Bruce Broughton, Stephen Bulla, James Curnow, William Himes and Joseph Turrin.

Upon hearing the band, it will become apparent as to why this kind of brass ensemble is the best way to train brass players for the musical, technical and physical demands of their instrument.

The UGA British Brass Band has quickly become a favorite of audiences of all ages in the Athens – Atlanta area, with notable recent performances in UGA Holiday Concerts, at the Performing Arts Center’s Saturday Morning Club, as part of the School of Music's Scholarship Series and at the Chick-fil-A corporate headquarters’ Christmas Open House.

The UGA Trombone Choir provides a musical outlet for studio members and non-majors alike.  Directed by Dr. Josh Bynum, this group meets twice each week, and features a variety of musical styles and creative opportunities for the students (including conducting, arranging, and soloing).   Repertoire for the Trombone Choir ranges from original literature to transcriptions of classical and popular music.  We are also committed to new repertoire, having participated in several commission consortiums.  

In addition to campus concert and engagements, the UGA Trombone Choir has been a featured ensemble at the GMEA Conference, JanFest Showcase, and also performs at UGA Athletic Events.

The UGA Trombone Ensemble is a select group of twelve members from the UGA Trombone Studio.  This modular group is comprised of three trombone quartets, performing in a variety of combinations.  The UGA Trombone Ensemble has one extended rehearsal each week, and is driven by the benefits of chamber music.   Repertoire consists of musically and technically demanding original works and arrangements that showcase the abilities and qualities of the group.  

In addition to campus and community engagements, the UGA Trombone Ensemble has been featured at the International Trombone Workshop, Eastern Trombone Workshop, and GMEA Conference.  This group is designed for ease of outreach, and performs regularly for area schools, retirement communities, and music guilds.