The UGA Symphonic Band, directed by Michael C. Robinson with Jeremy Smith and Molly Blair, performs classic wind band repertoire in their first concert of the year, Wednesday, September 28. The program includes music by Jack Stamp, David Gillingham, John Barnes Chance, John Philip Sousa, Samuel Hazo, and Johan de Meij.

The UGA Symphonic Band, directed by Michael C. Robinson with Jeremy Smith and Molly Blair, performs classic wind band repertoire in their first concert of the year, Wednesday, September 28. The program includes music by Jack Stamp, David Gillingham, John Barnes Chance, John Philip Sousa, Samuel Hazo, and Johan de Meij.



Admission is free to the 7:30 concert in UGA Performing Arts Center's Hodgson Concert Hall. The event will also be live-streamed: https://www.music.uga.edu/performing-arts-center-live-streaming. The Symphonic Band is the largest of the three year-round wind bands in the Hodgson School. Students representing a wide array of academic disciplines perform four concerts each academic year.

Michael Heald and Anatoly Sheludyakov will present a recital of violin and piano music at the Ramsey Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Center on September 19 at 7:30pm.This is part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s Faculty Recital Series.They will perform sonatas by Mozart, Amy Beach, and Edward Elgar.

Michael Heald and Anatoly Sheludyakov will present a recital of violin and piano music at the Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center on September 19 at 7:30pm.This is part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s Faculty Recital Series.They will perform sonatas by Mozart, Amy Beach, and Edward Elgar. Audiences may be less familiar with the works of Beach and Elgar, but they are both wonderful examples of music of the second half of the romantic era, full of expression and personal emotional gesture in combination with virtuosity and dramatic flair. Tickets are $12 for adults and $3 for children and students and are available from the UGA Performing Arts Center.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series will open on Thursday, September 15, 7:30 in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.  Featured on the concert will be the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series will open on Thursday, September 15, 7:30 in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.  Featured on the concert will be the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1997, the UGA Symphony Orchestra has opened this series, just weeks after classes begin.  For this year’s concert, conductor Mark Cedel has chosen a selection of concert favorites. 

Opening the concert will be Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz.  In this overture, you can hear the same vitality and colors one hears in the composer’s most famous work, Symphonie fantastique.  Following the overture, the orchestra will perform the Firebird Suite 1919 by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes.  The success of the ballet was the start of Stravinsky's partnership with Diaghilev, which would subsequently produce further ballet productions until 1923, including the acclaimed Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913).  The concert will conclude with a performance of Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Major.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $3 for children and students and are available from the PAC box office or online at pac.uga.edu.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series will open on Thursday, September 15, 7:30 in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. Featured on the concert will be the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1997, the UGA Symphony Orchestra has opened this series, just weeks after classes begin. For this year’s concert, conductor Mark Cedel has chosen a selection of concert favorites.

Opening the concert will be Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz. In this overture, you can hear the same vitality and colors one hears in the composer’s most famous work, Symphonie fantastique. Following the overture, the orchestra will perform the Firebird Suite 1919 by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes. The success of the ballet was the start of Stravinsky's partnership with Diaghilev, which would subsequently produce further ballet productions until 1923, including the acclaimed Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). The concert will conclude with a performance of Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Major.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $3 for children and students and are available from the PAC box office or online at pac.uga.edu.

Not your standard brass quintet concert!! This is a concert not to be missed! Our guest will be a voice you are familiar with, Tony Messano. You have heard him at ATL, now come meet him in person!

The program will feature Eugene Bozza’s Sonatine, but with a wonderful story of Phillipe the Penguin! This story is written by Dorian Rence and illustrated by Marion Schoevaert. Tony will also narrate Anthony Plog’s Animal Ditties, with wonderful illustrations by our own Dr. Craswell’s little Hadleigh.

Not your standard brass quintet concert!! This is a concert not to be missed! Our guest will be a voice you are familiar with, Tony Messano. You have heard him at ATL, now come meet him in person!

The program will feature Eugene Bozza’s Sonatine, but with a wonderful story of Phillipe the Penguin! This story is written by Dorian Rence and illustrated by Marion Schoevaert. Tony will also narrate Anthony Plog’s Animal Ditties, with wonderful illustrations by our own Dr. Craswell’s little Hadleigh.

Rounding out this fun-filled program will be Dr. James Naigus’ sparkling new quintet, Cyclone, as well as Andre Previn’s unique Four Outings for Brass. In case it rains, come anyway and hear April Showers as arranged by Robert Elkjer.

What a night! 

Hugh Hodgson School of Music faculty with a guest artist from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform a free Chamber Music concert featuring works by Brahms and Dohnanyi. 

UGA faculty members Michael Heald (violin), Maggie Snyder (viola), David Starkweather (cello), and Alan Woo (piano) are joined by ASO First Violinist Kenn Wagner in Brahms' String Quartet No.1 and Dohnanyi's wonderful Piano Quintet No.1.

An evening filled with drama, emotion, warmth, lyricism, and more, this event will be held in the internationally acclaimed Performing Arts Center.