The British Brass Band has become an Athens fan favorite. The repertoire encompasses a wide variety of styles including excellent original works, marvelous transcriptions of orchestral works, as well as marches and other light pieces. British Brass Band is conducted by Gilbert Villagrana.

This concert is free with no tickets required.

UGA Professor of Ethnomusicology Jean Kidula will be offering the African Music Ensemble this spring as an opportunity for students to discover and explore musical history, instrumentation, and expression that is rooted in African cultures and traditions.

This concert is free with no tickets required.

Daniel Bolshoy is committed to bringing the guitar to the attention of audiences everywhere. He is regularly praised for his friendly and informative spoken introductions, and progressive programming of solo and chamber music. His concert tours take him from prestigious international concert stages to remote villages and house-concerts. Bolshoy has performed as a soloist with over sixty orchestras internationally and across Canada, including the Mexico City Philharmonic, Israel Chamber, Volgograd Symphony (Russia), and the symphony orchestras of New Mexico, Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Kingston, Victoria, Okanagan, Saskatoon, and Nova Scotia.

This event is free and includes a reception with the artist immediately following.
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. 

RSVP for Daniel Bolshoy, guitar 3/17/26 at 7:30 p.m.

Levon Ambartsumian is Regent’s and Franklin Professor of Violin at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Prior to coming to UGA in 1995, he was a visiting professor at Indiana University School of Music, replacing legendary American violin teacher Joseph Gingold.  Ambartsumian also taught for 15 years at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, beginning in 1978. Ambartsumian is an alumnus of the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where his teachers were Felix Andrievski, Yury Yankelevitch, Leonid Kogan, and Igor Bezrodny. In 1977, he became the First Prize winner of Zagreb International Violin Competition. 

This event is free and includes a reception with the artist immediately following.
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. 

RSVP for Levon Ambartsumian, violin 2/17/26 at 7:30 p.m.

Tonight’s faculty recital will be given by Michael Heald, Professor of Violin at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and guest artist Timothy Lovelace, professor of collaborative piano at the University of Minnesota.  They will perform works by Schubert, Rubbra, Kaprálová, and Franck. The program provides audiences the chance to hear old favorites along with music that is less familiar. Edmund Rubbra’s Second Sonata is a dark work, full of angst and longing, while the Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová  wrote her Legend very early in her career in 1932 when she was 16 or 17. It is a short work, full of individual imagination, elegant contours, and youthful passion.

About Michael Heald
Michael Heald is currently professor of violin at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia. He primarily studied with Emanuel Hurwitz and Richard Deakin in England, and then with Walter Verdehr at Michigan State University. Heald has performed in a multitude of settings, collaborating with artists such as Peter Frankl, Joseph Lin, and  Ralph Votapek in chamber music. He has performed throughout Europe and the United States as an orchestral musician, playing and recording in such orchestras as the Philharmonia, the BBC Philharmonic, and the English String Orchestra. Conductors include Simon Rattle, Yehudi Menuhin, and Valery Gergiev.

This event is free and includes a reception with the artist immediately following.
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. 

RSVP for Michael Heald, violin 1/27/26 at 7:30 p.m.

Damon Denton was born in Charleston, S.C., and grew up in Severna Park, Maryland. He is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and The Juilliard School where he received a Master of Music degree studying under Russian pianist, Oxana Yablonskaya. He has been a faculty accompanist at the University of Georgia since 2010. During his career, Denton has performed concerts in England, Ireland, Mexico, Germany, South Africa, and throughout the United States. Venue highlights have included: Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, The University of South Africa, and The State Theater of Pretoria among others.

This event is free and includes a reception with the artist immediately following. 
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. 

RSVP for Damon Denton, piano 11/5/25 at 7:30 p.m.

Anne Slovin, soprano, will be joining the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music voice faculty this fall as assistant professor of voice. Slovin is a versatile performing artist, researcher, and voice pedagogue who earned her doctorate from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in 2025. Passionate about crossing genres and exploring new vocal repertoires and styles, she has recently performed as Eve in Haydn’s The Creation at the University of Notre Dame, collaborated across universities for Tom Cipullo’s A Visit With Emily, and joined the Raritan Players in Bloomington and New York City for a concert of 18th-century Jewish music.

This event is free and includes a reception with the artist immediately following.
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. 

RSVP for Anne Slovin, soprano 10/30/2025 at 7:30 p.m.

Praised by the New York Times as a pianist with “assurance and vitality,” Alan Woo made his Lincoln Center debut performing with the Juilliard Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He has since made solo appearances with the Houston and Fort Worth Symphonies and presented recitals throughout the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Asia. As a chamber musician, he has performed at the New York Philharmonic Ensembles, Lake George Music Festival, and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest series among others. Woo completed degrees at The Juilliard School and Peabody Institute, and currently teaches at the University of Georgia as an assistant professor of piano.

This event is free and includes a reception with the artist immediately following.
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. 

RSVP for Alan Woo, piano 9/9/25 at 7:30 p.m.

Closing out the season of Faculty Chamber Ensembles are four of our UGA string and piano faculty presenting an evening of piano quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms. Featuring Shakhida Azimkhodjaeva, viola; Levon Ambartsumian, violin; James Kim, cello; and Alan Woo, piano.

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Subaerial Collective is a trio of UGA faculty composer-performers: Adrian Childs, piano/keyboards; Peter Lane, bassoon/contrabassoon and technology; and Emily Koh, double bass/electric bass. Formed in September 2018, Subaerial Collective champions works that expand the limits of traditional concert boundaries through the use of technology, reinterpretation of performance practice or re-contextualization of the concert experience. The program also includes woodwind duos featuring Angela Jones-Reus, flute; Amy Pollard, bassoon; and  Brandon Quarles, saxophone.

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