The Hodgson School of Music will host an All Student Convocation on Monday, August 16, from 4:30 to 5:30 in Ramsey Hall at the Performing Arts Center. The agenda will include introduction of new faculty, curricular changes and a message from Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Dean Garnett Stokes, among other items.

Immediately following the convocation there will be a pizza picnic in the second floor lobby for all students faculty and staff. This will be an excellent opportunity to welcome those new to the HHSOM family and to celebrate the opening of the new academic year.

Starting this semester, UGA students can register for private lessons for credit through OASIS. For more information, visit http://www.music.uga.edu/lessons/

The University of Georgia Wind Ensemble under the direction of John Lynch, UGA Director of Bands, toured Argentina recently from May 10 to May 17 as an invited performing ensemble for the nation's 200th bicentennial celebration.  The travelling party of 60 included students and faculty including Dale Monson, Director of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and faculty soloists Angela Jones-Reus (flute), Amy Marinello (bassoon) and Scott Pollard (percussion).

On March 23 of this year, the UGA Concert Choir and the Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Mitos Andaya, performed the Vespers of 1610 by Claudio Monteverde. The concert performance in Hodgson Hall involved many guest singers and musicians, including alumnus Derek Chester, who has performed this piece, and others, in several highly-renown venues this year.

Today is the big day (actually for the whole of UGA, it's tomorrow, when we will welcome Alton Brown to campus to address the class of 2010). Tonight at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall, the Hodgson School of Music will honor its graduates and award winners. Our honored guest and speaker tonight is Charles Wadsworth. Congratulations to all of our graduates and their families on this momentous occasion.

It's time to sign up for Summer Music Camps at UGA. Choose from Summer Music Camp,  Summer Music Institute, Marching Band Camp, Step Off and the Summer Twirl and Dance Camp.

Visit the site for more information, dates, registration and deadlines.

This past Saturday night at Lincoln Center in New York, the Accidentals took third place in this year's International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.

The UGA Philharmonia, under the direction of Dr. Skip Taylor, conductor, and Thomas Taylor Dickey, assistant conductor, and

the UGA University Band, James Henderson, conductor, John Schnettler, assistant conductor, and Hannah Rudy, undergraduate conducting assistant, present a free concert tonight at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall.

The program for tonight's concert is here.