Stephen Fischer, serves as the Outreach Administrator for the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music working with the Community Music School, String Project, and Summer Music Camps. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music education and a Masters degree and DMA in saxophone performance.  

Brett Bawcum is Assistant Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Georgia. He shares responsibility for design, instruction, and administration of the Redcoat Marching Band and serves as its primary drill-writer. He also directs the Basketball and Volleyball Pep Bands, conducts various concert bands, and teaches courses in a variety of areas including Instrumentation/Arranging and Marching Band Techniques.

Monica Hargrave holds a Bachelor of Music degree in harp performance from the Indiana University School of Music and a Master of Arts degree in music from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She has made radio appearances on Talk Back Atlanta, and television appearances for Good Day Atlanta. Monica has three CD recordings, Divine Time, Divine Season, and Harp to Heart. 

A native of Moscow, Anatoly Sheludyakov graduated from the Gnesin's Musical Academy and completed doctoral studies there under professor Anatoly Vedernikov. He also graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in the composition class of Tikhon Khrennikov. His compositions include Variations for Orchestra, Ostinato for Orchestra, Suite for Oboe and Piano, Suite for Violin and Piano, the cantata Brotherhood Songs, Trombone Quartet, six vocal suites, and many other compositions.

Education:

• University of Miami, Ph.D (music education)
• University of North Texas, M.M. (jazz studies)
• Oberlin Conservatory of Music, M.M.E. (music education)
• Oberlin Conservatory of Music, B.M. (jazz performance, music education)

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Let's Dance!, the Hodgson Wind Ensemble's first performance of the 2019-20 season is a fun, uplifting, celebration of dance from a variety of cultures and contexts. Come stomp your feet to dance tunes from Cajun to Krumping and join us in the "Tweet Seats" to interact with the music in real time! 

(ATHENS, GA) The Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department will host a ribbon cutting ceremony and open the next phase of the North Oconee River Greenway Trail System on Thursday, September 5 at 5:00 p.m.    

The public is invited to attend and assemble at the East Campus Connector Bridge.  Free parking is available at the nearby UGA Park & Ride lot (E23) located off College Station Road on North Oconee River Access Road.

The University of Georgia’s Symphony Orchestra, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s premiere orchestra ensemble, will begin the new season with an exciting performance on the newly renovated Hodgson Hall stage. Students will take their chairs to perform challenging repertoire on September 5thin the opening concert of the 2019-2020 Thursday Scholarship Series Season.

Longtime University of Georgia music educator Olin Parker passed away on Monday August 5, 2019. Parker, a veteran of WWII and the Korean War, served as professor emeritus and a former associate director of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. He began teaching at UGA in 1964 and remained active in the school and in the field well into his 90s. 

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is proud to present the inaugural season of Chamber Music Athens (CMA), a new festival with a national scope that will bring together internationally acclaimed guest artists, UGA faculty, and students for ten days of chamber music festivities and performances during the weeks of May 12-21, 2019.