Presented by the UGA Arts Council, the seventh annual Spotlight on the Arts festival features dozens of events and exhibitions in the visual, literary and performing arts. The 11-day festival, scheduled for Nov. 1-11, includes concerts, museum tours, discussions with writers, dance and dramatic performances. The festival kicks off Nov. 1 with student performances all day on Tate Plaza followed by “Kaleidoscope: Spotlight on the Arts Opening Celebration,” which features a non-stop collage of student performances in dance, music, theater and creative writing.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music will be hosting international guest artists Philippe Geiss, saxophone, and Marija Aupy, piano, from France, appearing together as the dynamic Duo Ostinato. The concert will take place in Edge Hall on Wednesday, October 31 at 6pm.

University of Georgia DMA student Gonzalo Arias Contreras won the silver medal at the Florida Guitar Festival and Competition held in Tallahassee, Florida annually in October. Gonzalo is a student of Daniel Bolshoy, who was also in attendance at the festival performing a solo recital and teaching a masterclass.

Cellist Dennis Parker will be performing a recital in Ramsey Hall of the UGA Performing Arts Center at 5:30 on Thursday, October 25.  He will be joined by pianist Lina Morita, playing two Brahms sonata transcriptions – the Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, and the Viola Sonata in E-flat.  The program will also include Capriccio by Lucas Foss and Sambatango by Walter Marx.  Mr.

The University of Georgia Opera Theatre will be presenting a Gala concert of highlights from ten different operas by the greatest composers of Bel Canto era music, including Donizetti, Rossini, and Bellini. The performance will take place on October 18th and 19th at 7:30 pm in Hodgson Concert Hall. The era of Bel Canto, which translates to “Beautiful Singing,” was a style of singing and composing from the early decades of the 19th century. This style of singing and music is still a primary focus of opera companies world-wide.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, D. Ray McClellan's October 11th Faculty Artist Series concert has now been cancelled. Refunds will be given to anyone who has already purchased tickets.

The ARCO Chamber Orchestra’s first concert of the season will take place in Hodgson Concert Hall on Tuesday, October 9, at 7:30 p.m.

The ensemble will perform chamber works by Alexander Arensky and Mikhail Glinka, as well as Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, arranged by award winning composer Igor Kholopov.   

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music will continue its 2018-19 Thursday Scholarship Series with an exciting performance by The University of Georgia Jazz Ensemble on Thursday, October 4th at 7:30 in Hodgson Concert Hall. The event is entitled “An Evening of Hits from the Big Band Era” and is sure to deliver on that with the program they have planned.

Join the Hugh Hodgson School of Music as they host the Gerald S. Mayo Visiting Conductor Sandra Snow of Michigan State University in an evening of choral music and collaboration. The concert will take place on Friday, September 28th in Hodgson Hall at 7:30.

Kenneth Holmqvist is a professor at North-West University, South Africa, at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and is currently a guest professor at Regensburg University, Germany. Holmqvist has worked with eye-movement research since 1995. He has conducted a long series of innovative research projects using eye-trackers, from mental imagery to decision making, reading, air traffic control, and eye movements in animals.