Dr. Susan Thomas received the prestigious Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society earlier this month in San Francisco. Dr. Thomas was recognized for her work "Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage." The Stevenson Award recognizes outstanding scholarship in Iberian music, including music composed, performed, created, collected, belonging to, or descended from the cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Professor of Double Bass Milton Masciadri is the subject of the University of Georgia's most recent "Focus on Faculty" feature.

A longtime member of the School of Music faculty, Masciadri is also an internationally-renowned performer and teacher, who has presented concerts and masterclasses in North and South America and Europe. In 1998, he was named a UNESCO Artist for Peace. Earlier this month, he performed in Venice, Italy with the ARCO Chamber Orchestra.

David Okun, President of the UGA Collegium Musicum and former President of the UGA Choral Association, has been named as one of UGA's "Amazing Students." Okun is also the President of the Dean William Tate Honor Society as well as a member of Blue Key and Omicron Delta Kappa. He was also elected to UGA's 2011 Homecoming Court this past Homecoming season.

The UGA Collegium Musicum under the direction of Dr. Mitos Andaya performed "Musical Gems of the Renaissance and Baroque" to an audience of approximately 400 at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers on November 13, 2011. The program included music by Josquin conducted by MM candidate Steve Knell, as well as White, Purcell, and Charpentier.

The Utah Symphony's Paula Fowler says of Puccini and La Bohème:

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music proudly presents two chamber music concerts today.  At 3:35 pm in Edge Hall, you can hear music for clarinet quartet and woodwind quintet.  Tonight at 8 pm, join the Red Shift Saxophone Quartet in Edge Hall for works by Debussy, Bozza, Torke, and others.

Both concerts are free.

As Vice-President of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO), Dr.

UGA Percussion Ensemble: 8 pm, Ramsey Concert Hall (Free)

Ionisation (1934)

Edgard Varese

Millet Music (1992)

Matthew Davidson

Different but One Body (2003)

Dajeong Choi

The Wind Ensemble enlivened an already beautiful Fall afternoon the last Friday in September with its second Concert on the Lawn. The students, Dr. Lynch, guest soloists Michael Heald and Brandon Craswell , and PAC director George Foreman all did a terrific job, as a few more folks on campus discovered the musicianship and precision of the Wind Ensemble. A few highlights, plus some shots of North Campus:

Nice article about the New Horizons and the Community Music School in the Athens Banner Herald:

The band actually grew out of the University of Georgia's Community Music School, a part of UGA's Hugh Hodgson School of Music, said Kristin Jutras, director of the community music school, which offers private lessons and other musical opportunities to UGA students as well as people in Athens and surrounding communities.