The Hugh Hodsgon School of Music announces faculty searches for the following positions:

Director of Choral Music

Assistant Professor of Percussion

Assistant Professor of Trombone

Assistant Professor of Viola

It with a heavy heart that we report the following:

UGA music professor and renowned chamber musician Kenneth Fischer dies after illness

Exams at UGA begin later this week, and there is a full slate of HHSOM concerts and recitals scheduled for today. These include: String Chamber recital, with Matthew Burns on guitar, 3:35 p.m., Edge Recital Hall.

Another example of the extraordinary individuals on the faculty at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music: UGA Community Music School Director Kristin Jutras and assistant professor of piano pedagogy Peter Jutras are featured in a spotlight article by their alma mater, the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

The Brass Herald published a very nice article and interview with our late colleague and trumpet virtuoso, Fred Mills in their August, 2009 issue. A pdf of the article is here,

Brass Herald 0908 Mills Interview

A slew of excellent music on tap today in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music:

Dennis Baraw, Double Bass - Edge Recital hall, 3:35 p.m.

UGA Tuba Euphonium Ensemble - Ramsey Concert Hall, 3:35 p.m.

Ayaka Sano, Violin - 5 p.m., Edge Recital Hall

Hodgson String Quartet - 6 p.m., Ramsey Concert Hall

Kristin Humbard, Pian0 - 6:30 p.m., Edge Recital Hall

Sara Elliott, Percussion - 8 p.m., Ramsey Concert Hall

Hodgson String Quartet to give inaugural concert

Athens, Ga. – The Hodgson String Quartet will play its inaugural concert at 6 p.m. on Nov. 30 in Ramsey Concert Hall at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center. The quartet, consisting of graduate students from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will play selections by Mozart, Shostakovich and Schubert. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

The Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition is a prestigious four-day event that takes place biennially in Baltimore, Maryland. UGA professor Richard Zimdars, Despy Karlas Professor of Piano in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, has been a member of the Board of Advisors for the Liszt-Garrison Festival since 2006. In 2007, the “Despy Karlas Prize of the University of Georgia” was added to the Liszt-Garrison Competition.

AthenaOpera UGA Opera Ensemble will present Verdi's Falstaff tonight at Hugh Hodgson Hall at 8 p.m.. The Athens Banner Herald has an article on the performance and the impact of UGA professor and Metropolitan Opera baritone, Frederick Burchinal: