The Hugh Hodgson School of Music 2014 Convocation will take place on May 8th at 7:00 pm in Hodgson Concert Hall.  Tickets for the event may be reserved by contacting Edith Hollander at edith@uga.edu or by calling 706-542-2701.

Our speaker this year will be Mary Frances Early, the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia (Master of Music Education, 1962).

Congratulations to DMA piano performance major Hyorim Lee, one of several instrumentalists selected for the first prize winner category at the 2014 American Protégé International Concerto Competition! This win means that Lee will be featured at a winner's recital in December 2014 in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.

Lee will perform alongside students from such respected establishments as The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Northwestern University, and LA's Colburn School of the Arts.

The University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music trombone, clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet studios have been quite busy as of late! Here are a few recent highlights.

Congratulations to Hugh Hodgson School of Music graduate student Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, recipient of UGA's 2014 Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award.

The award recognizes graduate student teacher of the highest level, selecting only five winners from across the entire university each year.

Ms. Ozment was nominated for this award by the Institute for Women's Studies, for whom she has taught for the past few years. Ms. Ozment also held instructional TA positions in the HHSOM during the course of her degree.

The Athens Music Project, a Willson Center Faculty Research Cluster co-directed by HHSOM professor Susan Thomas and Jean Kidula, will present a symposium on Thursday, April 17 at the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries Auditorium.

Composer Claude Baker, Chancellor's Professor of Composition at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, will visit the Hugh Hodgson School of Music for a residency this week, featuring performances and lectures open to the public.

Last weekend, several music therapy students from the University of Georgia presented their work at the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Region of the American Music Therapy Association.

The presentation, entitled, "Music Therapy Around the World," illustrated "the use of music therapy in various countries and the value of multicultural music in clinical settings."

Congratulations to Christopher Leslie and the UGA Graduate Tuba Euphonium Quartet, who were recent runners-up in the 2014 National Music Teacher National Association competition!

The quartet, comprised of Christopher Leslie, Patrick Geren, David McLemore, and Chris Gurtcheff, finished in 2nd place in the MTNA Chamber Music Competition. Meanwhile, Leslie was runner-up in MTNA's Young Artist Competition.

All are students of Hugh Hodgson School of Music professor David Zerkel.

Congratulations to Hugh Hodgson School of Music PhD student Mary Helen Hoque, whose paper "'A Good Band is Much Needed Here': Reconstructing Community through Music in the Reconstruction South" won the Ray H. Longyear award for the best student paper at the American Musicological Society chapter meeting on March 22!

The paper examines the work of Athens musician George Davis, organizer and leader of Athens' greatest post-Civil War era band, chronicling the way his music "bound black and white communities together in the Reconstruction South."

Congratulations to the UGA Trumpet Ensemble, which recently competed in the finals of the National Trumpet Competition - Trumpet Ensemble Division in Pennsylvania. The ensemble placed 5th overall. Hodgson School students Victoria Bethel and Anderson Romero were also invited to the National Trumpet Competition Undergraduate and Graduate solo competitions, where they competed in their respective semi-finals.