The American Chamber Festival, sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the UGA Performing Arts Center, is two evenings and one afternoon of chamber music May 20-22, presented free of charge.

Congratulations graduates (and parents)! The Hugh Hodgson School of Music presents its 2011 Graduation Convocation and Awards Ceremony tomorrow night, May 12, at 7 p.m. in Mahler Auditorium at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

Plan to come and help us celebrate the accomplishments of our students.

A reminder to save the date: Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m. in Mahler Auditorium at the Georga Center for Continuing Education, The Hodgson School of Music presents its 2011 Graduation Convocation and Awards Ceremony. Plan to come help us celebrate the accomplishments of our students.

Graduates: Please arrive at the Mahler Auditorium at the Georgia Center at 6 p.m. on May 12 in order to check in and begin the line up for the Processional. Further details Convocation 2011.

The UGA Concert Choir Spring 2011 Concert will take place Tuesday, April 12 at 8 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Athens, located at 185 East Hancock Avenue in downtown Athens.

The concert features works by Bach, Byrd, Hindemith, Mahler and more. The concert is free and the public is invited to attend.

The School of Music presents a joint concert by the UGA Glee Clubs on Tuesday, March 29 at 8 p.m. in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. Admission to this concert is free and the public is invited to attend.

A big slate of recitals and concerts are on the schedule for the School of Music this week.

One of the early week highlights, is David Zerkel's faculty recital on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. Zerkel will be joined by Anatoly Sheludyakov on piano for a program that includes works by Giovanni Pergolesi, Eugene Bozza, Ben Miles, Trygve Madsen and Robert Schumann. Admission to this concert is $5.

The UGA Wind Ensemble will perform on Tuesday night, March 8, at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall at the UGA Performing Arts Center. The concert date was erroneously listed  in Columns as Wednesday, March 9. We regret any confusion this may have caused.

The UGA Opera Ensemble, in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Film Studies and the Department of Dance, presents Strauss' comic operetta Die Fledermaus tonight a 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre on Baldwin Street.

Instead of its traditional Vienna setting, this "Die Fledermaus" takes place in New Orleans in the early 1900s. The Mardi Gras setting lends itself to creativity and collaboration, Burchinal said.

Over the weekend of Feb. 12 the UGA Wind Ensemble recorded music for a new CD, to be released later this year. Below is a video about the session that includes interviews with Dr. Lynch, Joshua Byrd and two of the musicians, Sarah Hranac and Sarah Lawing.

First Tony Bennett, Now this: