Hugh Hodgson School of Music faculty member Evgeny Rivkin will present an evening of piano music on Friday, April 3 at 7:30 pm in Hodgson Concert Hall. Tickets for the performance, which continues the 2014-2015 Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s 2^nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series, are $18/$5 for students and available via the UGA Performing Arts Center box office at 706/542-4400 or online at pac.uga.edu.

Richard Zimdars, Despy Karlas Professor of Piano at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will perform a lecture-recital surveying the contents of his new album, Piano Character Pieces from Four Continents, at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 12. The event, which takes place in the Hodgson School’s Edge Recital Hall, will be followed by a CD signing and light refreshments in the adjacent Choral Suite.

Lineage Percussion, a student chamber group coached by Hodgson School faculty Timothy Adams, Jr. and Kimberly Toscano Adams, has been selected to advance to the quarterfinals of the renowned Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

The University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music is pleased to announce a new online Master of Music Education degree program.

The program, geared toward providing post-graduate professional development to in-service music educators, will begin taking applicants immediately, with coursework beginning summer 2015.

Levon Ambartsumian, Franklin Professor of Violin in the University of Georgia's Hugh Hodgson School of Music, has been named a Regents Professor, effective July 1.

Congratulations to Crystal Wu and Brett Pardue, winners of the 2015 Atlanta Music Club Auditions!

Wu, a master's student of Hugh Hodgson School of Music professor Richard Zimdars, won the Graduate Piano Division, taking home a $2,000 prize. Pardue, a master's student of professor Frederick Burchinal, won the Graduate Vocal Division ($1,000 prize).

Congratualtions to Hodgson School alumnus David Glover (BMus '04), who was recently appointed Associate Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony. Glover comes to the symphony from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, where he spent two years as Assistant Conductor.

In addition to UGA, Glover holds a degree in violin performance from Boston University and a master's degree in instrumental conducting from Indiana University.

Photo courtesy of ncsymphony.org

The UGA Percussion Department has one of the finest collections of professional level instruments in the country as well as state of the art performance facilities and an abundance of dedicated practice space for percussionists.

We have a total of 8 dedicated practice spaces for our students:

Kathryn Wright, opera coach at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will present the final Hodgson Faculty Series recital with tenor Lawrence Bakst at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18. Tickets to the performance, which takes place in Ramsey Concert Hall, are $10, $5 for UGA students with ID.

The program will feature works for tenor and piano by Franceso Paolo Tosti, Martha von Sabinin, Friedrich von Flotow, Giuseppe Verdi, Gaspare Spontini , Ferdinando Paer, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Richard Wagner.

Hugh Hodgson School of Music faculty and graduate students present the latest entry in the 2^nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Tickets for the performance are $18/$5 for students and can be obtained via the UGA Performing Arts Center box office.