University Chorus opens the concert presenting songs of love and laughter. After intermission, the UGA Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (CCE) and the UGA Choral Project combine forces to present an encore of Awakening, featuring exciting new works for voices and instruments by living composers conducted by Sarah Frook Gallo and Brandon Quarles.

The UGA Women’s and Men’s Glee Clubs present Flow, an evening of music exploring the flow of the natural world in the water, the air, and the mind. Conducted by Sarah Frook Gallo as well as graduate choral conducting students, the concert will also feature guest instrumentalists from the UGA community. This concert is free. No tickets are required.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music continues its free concert series with the British Brass Band’s fall festival concert “Euphoric Brass!” featuring internationally renowned euphonium artist David Childs and guest band the Southern Territorial Band. The concert will be conducted by Band master Philip Smith on Monday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall at the UGA Performing Arts Center, 230 River Road, Athens, GA, 30602.

In addition, Childs will offer a recital on Tuesday, October 24 at 7:30 in Edge Hall at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at 250 River Road, Athens, GA, 30602. Both performances are free. No tickets are required.

ABOUT DAVID CHILDS, EUPHONIUM

David Childs is regarded as one of the finest brass musicians of his generation. He has appeared as soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru, DCINY Symphony and BBC Philharmonic; made solo appearances at the Singapore International Festival, Welsh Proms, Harrogate International Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Melbourne International Festival, BBC Proms and New York Festival; performed solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Bridgewater Hall; given Concerto performances at the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Symphony Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center and London’s Royal Albert Hall; and regularly records as a solo artist for radio, television and commercial disc.

David tours extensively performing in Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Japan, Hong Kong, Europe and the U.S.A. He is a keen advocate of new music and has premièred ten concerti for euphonium including a Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms broadcast of Alun Hoddinott's, 'Sunne Rising - The King Will Ride’, a Carnegie Hall US première of Karl Jenkins’ Concerto for Euphonium & Orchestra, a televised première of Philip Wilby’s Concerto for Euphonium & Orchestra, and a UK première of Christian Lindberg’s Concerto for Euphonium & Orchestra directed by the composer.

David is an Associate of the Royal College of Music London; a Professor at both the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and the Birmingham Conservatoire; an Artist for the Buffet Group Besson, Alliance and Reunion Blues; and is Director of Prima Vista Musikk publishing house. He is also a founder member of the highly successful brass quartet Eminence Brass and Artistic Director of Wales’ premiere wind orchestra Cardiff Symphonic Winds.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music (HHSOM) welcomes the SOLI Chamber Ensemble in residency October 19-20. Their residency begins with a concert on Thursday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m., followed by a day of workshops and master classes from 2-7 p.m. with composition and performance students.

SOLI Chamber Ensemble has been giving voice to 20th- and 21st-century contemporary chamber music since 1994, engaging audiences with unique performances, ensuring the future of new music through educational initiatives, and continually renewing their commitment to the music of living composers through performances and commissions. Winner of the 2013 Chamber Music America and ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award and a 2020 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant, SOLI continues to champion new works, new contexts, and new audiences for the music of our time.

The concert will be presented in Ramsey Concert Hall at the UGA Performing Arts Center, 230 River Road, Athens, GA, 30602. This concert is free. No tickets required. The workshops on Friday will be in the Dancz Center for New Music in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 250 River Road, Athens, GA, 30602. The residency is open to the public.

ABOUT SOLI

SOLI’s engagement with the dynamism of 21st-century music includes a strong commitment to

commissioning new works from established and emerging composers. In its first 29 years, SOLI has

commissioned and premiered over 100 new compositions from some of today’s most exciting voices,

including Shulamit Ran, Kinan Azmeh, Clarice Assad, D. J. Sparr, Darian Donovan Thomas, Armando

Bayolo, Scott Ordway, Pierre Jalbert, Steven Mackey, Matthew Aucoin, Xi Wang, Alexandra Gardner,

Ethan Wickman, Carl Schimmel, Ned Rorem, Paul Moravec, Robert X. Rodriguez, Elliott McKinley, Peter

Lieuwen, David Heuser, Tim Kramer, and many others. SOLI has presented several of these works on

their commercially-released recordings The Clearing and the Forest (Acis), Música por un tiempo

(Albany), Overland Dream (MSR), and Portraits and in their digital productions.

The San Antonio-based ensemble presents a regular season of concerts and is as comfortable in concert

halls as they are in museums, art galleries, jazz clubs, and other venues that allow audiences to enjoy

music in a more relaxed, informal setting. SOLI creates special projects and collaborations with other

organizations, such as Ballet San Antonio, Attic Rep Theater Company, Youth Orchestras of San Antonio,

and Musical Bridges Around the World. In 2017, SOLI embarked on a major collaborative effort with the

Children’s Chorus of San Antonio, San Antonio Chamber Choir, and soloist Tynan Davis to realize

composer Ethan Wickman’s cantata, Ballads of the Borderlands, in celebration of the 300th anniversary

of the City of San Antonio. In April 2021, SOLI presented ((HERE)) by San Antonio-native multi-disciplinary artist 

Darian Donovan Thomas with texts by San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson.

In addition to the Chamber Music America awards, SOLI has received awards and grants from the Aaron

Copland Fund for Music, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amphion Foundation, the Ditson

Foundation, New Music USA’s Creative Connections, the Eastman Institute for Music Leadership, Meet

the Composer, The Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, the Argosy Foundation, The Tobin Endowment,

the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture.

SOLI’s vision brings new music alive through a rich education program for the next generations of

creators and patrons aged 8-88. As Ensemble in Residence at Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) since

2008, SOLI performs on campus, conducts open rehearsals, coaches student chamber groups, and

works with student composers. Academic residencies have taken their artistry and experience to

campuses throughout the U.S. and to Alba, Italy.