This collaborative project brings together the music composition studio and the trumpet studio at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music in an exploration of melodic weaving, drawing inspiration from the new sculptural installation by artist Rachel B. Hayes on view at the Georgia Museum of Art. Just as Hayes layers fabric and color to create immersive environments, the student composers approach melody as a pliable material — stretching, overlapping and intertwining lines to form intricate sonic tapestries. Undergraduate composers Nathan Bine, Sydney Brockway, Ryan Hanling, Lyra Hodge, Timothy Jackson, Andrew Latimer, Marcus Lewis and Benji Nguyen, alongside doctoral composer Richie Arndorfer, contribute new works that highlight the trumpet’s lyrical and textural possibilities in collaboration with Dr. Emily Koh, associate professor of music composition, and Dr. Brandon Craswell, professor of trumpet.

“Woven” emphasizes dialogue: between lines, instruments and artistic disciplines. By translating Hayes’ visual language into sound, the project invites audiences to experience melody as both linear and spatial, simultaneously intimate and expansive. Ultimately, this collaboration provides young composers with practical experience writing for brass instruments while fostering creative connections across the music department.

Organist John Coble will perform a recital of in memory of Dr. Raymond Martin. The program will include music by J.S. Bach, Dan Locklair, Felix Mendelssohn, and Louis Vierne. Coble is Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Athens, and is Instructor of Organ at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music. The recital is presented as part of the Wayne F. Middendorf Memorial Concert Series and is free and open to the public. 

Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker

Reflecting on his fourth year as a professor and director of bands for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Nicholas Enrico Williams realized that one of his dreams has been fulfilled.  “I remember the first time I heard a recording of the UGA Wind Symphony in 1997,” he said. “It was at that time when I thought to myself ‘I want to be a faculty member at a school that has such high, and also creative, musical standards.’”  

Last summer, before his final year at UGA, Peter Kanda (B. Mus. Piano Performance, German Studies Minor ‘26) had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Pehlivanian Professional Opera Academy in Slovenia. Founded under the direction of Maestro George Pehlivanian, a Lebanese conductor living between Los Angeles, Paris, and Ljubljana, the academy is an important pillar of the international opera scene. The academy offers comprehensive training for conductors and vocalists from all over the world, with a focus on refining their skills.

Timothy K. Adams, professor of percussion and area chair

Harriet: Journey to Freedom is a new work by Timothy K. Adams Jr, recorded and produced by CRD and was released this October.