Two music faculty members of the University of Mississippi, Dr. Jos Milton and Amanda Johnston, will perform for the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Ramsey Concert Hall on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 6 p.m. 

Milton, tenor and assistant professor of music, and Johnston, collaborative pianist and associate professor of music, will present a free, multimedia performance of Schubert’s “Winterreise.” 

The Hodgson Singers, the premier vocal ensemble at the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will sing in and for the community when they perform at Athens YWCO’s Winter Concert at the North Oconee High School Fine Arts Center on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m.

A three-day Beethoven Festival kicks off at the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Edge Recital Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m.

A joint performance series from the studios of School of Music faculty members Levon Ambartsumian and Evgeny Rivkin, the festival comprises performances of 10 sonatas for piano and violin written by the legendary composer. Faculty members and students alike will take to the Edge Hall stage on Feb. 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 12 at 5 p.m.

When 1,100 cheering high school students filled Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall to capacity on Jan. 22, it might have seemed like the culmination of the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music's outreach efforts. But it's just the tip of the iceberg.

The Hodgson Wind Ensemble's performance during JanFest, a music festival that annually hosts over 1,000 high school students from Georgia and South Carolina, is an important, visible high point in the School of Music's outreach, but it's just one small part of the festival.

Noted saxophonist Vladislav Vals performs a guest artist recital at the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Ramsey Concert Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 6 p.m. 

Vals, the official artist of Yamaha music in Russia, will perform a program spanning a wide array of saxophone repertoire that Wednesday night. Following the performance in Ramsey Hall, Vals will host a master class in Edge Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

The UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music will see one of its faculty members perform her first-ever UGA solo faculty recital in Ramsey Concert Hall on Monday, Feb. 1, at 8 p.m.

Liza Stepanova, assistant professor of piano at the School of Music, is set to perform a program she’s dubbed “Musical Mavericks,” which will include works spanning four countries and nearly 300 years.

Stepanova says the title comes from the composers’ penchant for writing “independently of the prevailing artistic trends of their time.”

The UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music is home to hundreds of one-of-a-kind students, but the School will soon host a guest artist performance that is one-of-a-kind in the truest sense of the phrase.

Violist Elias Goldstein will perform Paganini’s 24 Caprices in a free-to-attend recital in Ramsey Concert Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 6 p.m. 

Goldstein, assistant professor of viola at Louisiana State University, was the first violist to ever perform all 24 Caprices—originally written for violin—in a live recital.

The Georgia Woodwind Quintet, the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s faculty woodwind ensemble, is performing in Ramsey Concert Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. 

The performance features 20th century works from Eric Ewazen, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel. 

Due to inclement weather, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music is closing at 2:30 p.m. today.

All JanFest activities for the afternoon of Jan. 22 are cancelled, and the following changes have been made to the schedule for Jan. 23:

Saturday, Jan. 23:

9:00am - Auxiliary Day begins at Classic Center

9:15am - SOM/PAC rehearsals begin

9:30am - FSB/CC rehearsals begin

JanFest continues as scheduled after this point.

A familiar face at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music will go from collaborator to soloist when Anatoly Sheludyakov performs in Ramsey Concert Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m.

Sheludyakov, resident accompanist at the School of Music and an accomplished pianist who has performed on four continents, plans to showcase a number of lesser-known works by Tchaikovsky in his solo recital.