ATHFEST EDUCATES ANNOUNCES SPECIAL PROJECT, COLLABORATION

Seven of Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s most talented students perform solos in Hodgson Hall as part of the annual Concerto Competition, which is a longstanding tradition of the Hodgson School. Music students from all areas may compete. Students must learn a concerto, then perform it for a faculty judges panel. This year the Concerto Competition returns virtually in a two-night concert premiere on April 27th and 28th at 7 p.m. via YouTube.

April 23, 2021

Laurier appoints new dean of the Faculty of Music

The Orpheus Chamber Singers announce the appointment of J.D. Burnett to the position of Artistic Director, effective January 1, 2022. Dr. Burnett will assume the position after the retirement of Orpheus's founder, Donald Krehbiel.

Join us on Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m. as the UGA Symphony Orchestra performs The Carnival of the Animals, a Suite by Camille Saint-Saëns, live from Hodgson Hall.



The Carnival of the Animals is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The work was written for private performance by an ad hoc ensemble of two pianos and other instruments.

The UGA Opera Theatre will be presenting a semi-staged concert with piano and singers of operatic duets, trios, and quartets.

The musical work "More than words..." for saxophone octet, piano, bass, and spoken word by UGA graduate composition student Kevin Day was commissioned by Connie Frigo, associate professor of saxophone in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and the UGA Saxophone Studio in the fall 2019.

Make plans to join us online for the UGA Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of 2021, on February 4 at 7:00.

The concert opens with "Vivid" by Shir-Ran Yinan. It's a vigorous work with lots of interesting colors and rhythms. It was composed for the German String Philharmonic and had its premier in 1986. Yinan was raised in Mannheim Germany and the studied in Israel. She presently lives in Leipzig where she continues as a performer and composer.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music will kick off the Spring 2021 semester with a Faculty Artist Series concert by guitar faculty Dr. Daniel Bolshoy. The program consists of all original music for guitar and has been pre-recorded by Dr. Bolshoy in a video which will premiere on the HHSOM YouTube channel on Wednesday, January 13th at 7 p.m.