For the second consecutive year and 12th year overall, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music was represented at the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning’s (CTL) Lilly Teaching Fellows opening retreat.

Held at Unicoi State Park and Lodge in Helen, the retreat was the first part of the Lilly Teaching Fellows program for the 2015-2017 class, which includes Jaclyn Hartenberger, School of Music assistant professor and director of the UGA Wind Symphony.

Piano performance students from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music continue to set themselves apart, making news recently with several notable achievements.

The UGA Symphony Orchestra will perform in Hodgson Concert Hall at the Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 8 p.m.

The program features works from Paul Dukas, Tchaikovsky and Mozart, the latter of which features D. Ray McClellan, professor of clarinet at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

The program includes Dukas’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet in A Major and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian.” 

The UGA Opera Ensemble Opera Scenes concert will be held on Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall at the Performing Arts Center.

The Opera Scenes program gives the undergraduate singers of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music an opportunity to perform operatic selections that are suitable for their developing voices and acting talents.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music continues to showcase its talented faculty with the Hugh Hodgson Faculty Series, which will feature Amy Pollard, professor of bassoon, in a performance on Oct. 12 at 8 p.m.

The series, which takes place each month in Ramsey Concert Hall at the Performing Arts Center, allows the faculty of the School of Music, many of whom are world-renowned performers, to express their talent outside of the classroom and studio.

The Second Thursday Scholarship Series concert for October revisits a program last performed at UGA 20 years ago: three Johannes Brahms sonatas presented by Hugh Hodgson School of Music professors Levon Ambartsumian and Evgeny Rivkin.

The concert, on October 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall at the Performing Arts Center, sees Ambartsumian, Regent’s and Franklin Professor of Violin, and Rivkin, professor of piano, returning to the piece that introduced them to the University of Georgia.

Athens, GA ­-- The 2015-2016 Second Thursday Scholarship Concert Series begins on Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. with Mark Cedel and the UGA Symphony Orchestra performing a program featuring "The Planets" by Gustav Holst and Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 100, "Military."

Holst's most popular work, "The Planets" is a seven-movement orchestral suite--each movement named for a planet in the Solar System--that has influenced and been adapted into a vast array of musical styles since its writing in the early 20th century.

The students of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music performed, competed and excelled across the globe this summer. Here are just a few of their highlights.

Matt Norman (MM Performance, Trombone) was named one of six international participants in the 2015 Alessi Seminar at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon (pictured at right). Norman was also the runner-up for the 2015 International Trombone Association’s Lewis van Haney Philharmonic Prize at the International Trombone Festival in Valencia, Spain.

The faculty of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music stayed busy over the summer with performances, seminars and conferences on regional, national and international stages.

Timothy Adams Jr., chair of the Percussion area, and Kimberly Toscano-Adams, Instructor of Percussion, hosted the 34th-annual Cloyd Duff International Timpani Seminar at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music (pictured at right). Students traveled as far as Sweden and Argentina to attend the class. Faculty included Tom Freer of the Cleveland Orchestra and Jim Atwood of the Louisiana Philharmonic.

The Southeast Tuba Euphonium Workshop (STEW) will hold a series of free concerts July 5 - 10 in Edge Hall at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. The performances will feature four leading teachers of the euphonium and tuba: Demondrae Thurman, Matthew Shipes, Benjamin Pierce, and UGA's own David Zerkel. The week will conclude with a two concerts featuring participating students.



All concerts are free and open to the public.