The Bulldog Brass Society, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s resident graduate student brass quintet, will hold its fall 2015 recital on Monday, Nov. 16 in Edge Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m.

With Anderson Romero and Geoff Wood on trumpets, Peter Riggs on horn, Matt Norman on trombone and Rachel Matz on tuba, the quintet will perform works from James Barnes, Leonard Bernstein, Victor Ewald, and Vince Gassi.

The UGA Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble will perform their fall concert on Monday, Nov. 2 in Ramsey Concert Hall at 8 p.m.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s premier low brass ensemble, the UGA Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble’s program includes works ranging from Mozart to Wagner to Kenyon Wilson, performed under the direction of David Zerkel, the School of Music’s professor of tuba and euphonium.

The trombone studio of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music will showcase some of its best during the UGA Trombone Choir & Ensemble fall concert on Monday, Nov. 2, in Ramsey Concert Hall at 6 p.m.

Both groups are directed by the School of Music’s associate professor of trombone, Joshua Bynum. The program for the concert includes pieces by Bach, Brahms, Mussorgsky and others.

In both theme and sound, the audience attending the next performance in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s Second Thursday Scholarship Series will experience an evening of epic proportions. 

The Hodgson Wind Ensemble (HWE) takes to the Hodgson Concert Hall stage on Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. for the November edition of the School of Music's popular concert series. 

The performance comprises two pieces: David Maslanka’s Symphony No. 8 and Oliver Waespi’s “Audivi Media Nocte.”

The UGA Men’s Glee Club and UGA Women’s Glee Club will perform their annual fall concert on Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Hodgson Concert Hall at 8 p.m.

One of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s newest ensembles, the UGA British Brass Band, plays its fall concert in Hodgson Concert Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 8:00 p.m.

Directed by professor of trumpet Phil Smith, the William F. and Pamela P. Prokasy Professor in the Arts, the 32-piece brass and percussion ensemble will perform the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and Mily Balakirev, as well as several English, Canadian and American composers of brass band repertoire.

Student composers at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music will present a slate of new music at the Student Composers Association (SCA) fall concert in the Roger & Phyllis Dancz Center for New Music on the second floor of the School of Music on Monday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m.

The University of Georgia’s Caribbean musical ambassadors, the UGA Steel Band, will perform in Ramsey Concert Hall on Friday, Oct. 23, at 6 p.m.

The free concert features a program built on musical traditions from Trinidad as well as popular music adapted for a steel band.

Dr. ToniMarie Marchioni will come to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music on Friday, Oct. 23, as yet another decorated guest artist ready to entertain and educate. 

 

Marchioni, the Juilliard-educated assistant professor of oboe at the University of Kentucky, will perform a free recital in Ramsey Concert Hall at 3:35 p.m.

The UGA Opera Theatre brings one of the world’s most famous operettas to the Performing Arts Center with their performances of Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” on Nov. 5 and 6 in Hodgson Concert Hall at 8 p.m.