The University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music launches its spring Thursday Scholarship Series of concerts with the winners of the Concerto Competition performing with the UGA Symphony Orchestra. This year’s winners (in alphabetical order): Michael Baker, trumpet; Gabriella McClellan, cello; Anna Savelyeva, piano; Diego Suarez, piano; and Yinzi Zhou, flute. The UGA Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Mark Cedel.

The Emerson Quartet is bringing Beethoven to Athens as part of their Farewell Tour. While they are in town for their performance, they will be offering master classes to students at UGA. These master classes are free and open to the public.

The complete schedule is:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Violin master class with Philip Setzer in Edge Hall

Viola master class with Lawrence Dutton in Hodgson Hall

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Violin with Eugene Drucker in Ramsey Hall

Cello with Paul Watson in Edge Hall

Emerson Quartet performance at UGA Performing Arts center

January 10, 2023

7:30 p.m., Hugh Hodgson Hall

“With musicians like this there must be some hope for humanity.”—The Times (London)

The Emerson String Quartet has maintained its status as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles for nearly fifty years. The quartet has made more than 30 acclaimed recordings and has been honored with nine Grammy Awards (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” award. Known for its “lively, nuanced playing” (New York Times), the quartet brings an all-Beethoven program to Athens for its final visit to Hodgson Concert Hall as part of its farewell tour.

Pre-performance talk in Ramsey Concert Hall at 6:45 pm (free admission).

Click Here for Tickets to the Emerson Quartet Performance

The Emerson Quartet is bringing Beethoven to Athens as part of their Farewell Tour. While they are in town for their performance, they will be offering master classes to students at UGA. These master classes are free and open to the public.

The complete schedule is:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Violin master class with Philip Setzer in Edge Hall

Viola master class with Lawrence Dutton in Hodgson Hall

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Violin with Eugene Drucker in Ramsey Hall

Cello with Paul Watson in Edge Hall

Emerson Quartet performance at UGA Performing Arts center

January 10, 2023

7:30 p.m., Hugh Hodgson Hall

“With musicians like this there must be some hope for humanity.”—The Times (London)

The Emerson String Quartet has maintained its status as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles for nearly fifty years. The quartet has made more than 30 acclaimed recordings and has been honored with nine Grammy Awards (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” award. Known for its “lively, nuanced playing” (New York Times), the quartet brings an all-Beethoven program to Athens for its final visit to Hodgson Concert Hall as part of its farewell tour.

Pre-performance talk in Ramsey Concert Hall at 6:45 pm (free admission).

Click Here for Tickets to the Emerson Quartet Performance

Amy Petrongelli, Assistant Professor in Voice, was part of the release of Khemia Ensemble's new album, INTERSECTIONS, which "invites listeners to meditate on the confluence of beginnings, endings, and the hope and grief that can accompany those events." The album was recorded and mixed by another UGA Faculty, Eric Dluzniewski, Academic Professional in Sound Recording. Listen to the album on Ravello Records HERE. 

Experimental immersive/3D audio electronic music with multimedia works, utilizing the full capacity of the Dancz Center’s multimedia and spatial audio capabilities.

Artist Biography: Natasha Barrett (1972) is a composer exploring new technologies and experimental approaches to sound in a broad range of contemporary music, including concert works, public space sound-art installations and multimedia interactive music. She is internationally renowned for her electroacoustic and acousmatic music, and use of 3D sound technology in composition. Her work is commissioned and performed throughout the world and has received over 20 international awards including the Nordic Council Music Prize, the Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), five first prizes and the Euphonie D'Or in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), two first prizes in the International Rostrum for electroacoustic music and most recently the honorary Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects and scientists and is also active in performance, education and research.

Photo by Carsten Aniksdal

Sound penetrates our outdoor spaces. Much of it we ignore, its qualities too quiet, fleeting or mundane to pay heed to amidst our thoughts and activities, or we may experience the sounds as an annoyance or disturbance. Manoeuvring our listening to be excited by outdoor sound, especially urban or city soundscapes, is not so easy. Yet amongst the noise can be found qualities of interest. In this presentation I show how I use 3D sound recording, analysis and electroacoustic composition to reveal the music under the noise, with examples from some recent outdoor sound installations.

Artist Biography: Natasha Barrett (1972) is a composer exploring new technologies and experimental approaches to sound in a broad range of contemporary music, including concert works, public space sound-art installations and multimedia interactive music. She is internationally renowned for her electroacoustic and acousmatic music, and use of 3D sound technology in composition. Her work is commissioned and performed throughout the world and has received over 20 international awards including the Nordic Council Music Prize, the Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), five first prizes and the Euphonie D'Or in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), two first prizes in the International Rostrum for electroacoustic music and most recently the honorary Thomas Seelig Fixed Media Award for 2023. She collaborates with performers, visual artists, architects and scientists and is also active in performance, education and research.

Photo by Carsten Aniksdal

The UGA Choral Project Spring Concert “Serenade to Music” will be presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. The performance will be in Ramsey Concert Hall at the UGA Performing Arts Center, 230 River Road, Athens, GA 30602. This performance is free and open to the public.

Central to this performance is Ralph Vaughan Williams’ moving ode to sweet harmony, “Serenade to Music.” Originally written for 16 soloists, the piece features each singer in a brief solo. The text comes from Act V of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” Vaughan Williams merged four characters’ lines into one invitation to notice the stillness of the night and to “let the sounds of music creep in our ears.”

The UGA Choral Project started in 2019 in an effort to provide students with a near-professional, project-based choral experience during their study at UGA. Professional choral singing is growing in scope and popularity around the world, and usually operates on a project model, where singers from all over the country learn the music on their own, travel to a city, rehearse intensely for several days, perform, and then scatter again. Choral Project seeks to imitate this project model, with an intense week of rehearsals that culminates in this free concert. 

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Beethoven. The symphony is regarded by critics as Beethoven’s greatest work and is one of the most frequently performed symphonies in the world.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $3 for students with a valid UGA ID.

PURCHASE TICKETS FOR "BEETHOVEN 9TH" ON THURSDAY, APRIL 27 AT 7:30 P.M.

PURCHASE TICKETS FOR "BEETHOVEN 9TH" ON FRIDAY, APRIL 28 AT 7:30 P.M.