The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is proud to share that second-year DMA student and graduate saxophone teaching assistant Harrison Clarke has recently won a position with the U.S. Navy Band, Washington, D.C., after competing against over 70 saxophonists from across the country. Positions in premiere military bands open up only when a current member of the band retires or leaves the band, which is what makes them so competitive. The nearly 12-hour audition process included three rounds and an interview before a winner was determined. 

The final large ensemble concert will take place on Thursday, April 25that 7:30 in Hodson Hall. Audience members are in for a special showcase performed by the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Hodgson Singers, Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs, and University Chorus.

On Tuesday, April 23, the Hodgson Wind Ensemble closes its 2018-19 season with an eclectic concert, featuring European flair.

Dionysiaques opens the program.  Director of Bands Cynthia Johnston Turner says influences of French impressionism are obvious, but are soon “abandoned in favor of festivity, brimming with rhythmic vitality and a relentless insistence on partying all the way to the very of control, and perhaps a bit beyond.”

Athens, GA – Peter Jutras, Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy in the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music, has been named director of the Hodgson School by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences dean Alan Dorsey. The appointment is effective July 1, 2019.

On Thursday, April 18, violin professor Michael Heald will bring to the stage a program that takes the audience past what one would typically expect from an English String Orchestra concert. The performance is set for 7:30 in Hodgson Hall. Professor Heald will be leading the performance as concertmaster and will be joined by several faculty guests, as well as student and alumni performers.

The UGA Symphony Orchestra will be performing an exciting program in Hodgson Hall on Tuesday, April 2nd at 7:30 pm. This concert is free!

The UGASO is directed by Mark Cedel, with student conductor Jean Gomez assisting. The orchestra will be performing pieces by Robert Schumann, George Walker, and Richard Strauss. Guest faculty artists Josh Bynum will be featured on Walker's "Concerto for Trombone and Strings."

The ARCO Chamber Orchestra presents an extraordinary performance featuring two Hugh Hodgson faculty members, Levon Ambartsumian and Evgeny Rivkin, performing concertos. The concert will take place in the Hodgson Concert Hall on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. and will highlight works by Mozart, Schubert, and Glinka. 

The University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music is excited to play host to the inaugural Gamelan Week this April 2019. The series of events is being held in celebration of the Hodgson School’s new Balinese gamelan ensemble Gamelan Chandra Natha, which literally translates as “magical power of the moon.”

Maggie Snyder, the strings area chair for the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will be giving a special faculty viola recital during Women’s History Month that celebrates women composers.  On the program she will be performing pieces by both male and female composers, living and historical.  The first piece on the program is by Mozart- a trio for Viola, Clarinet and Piano called “Kegelstatt Trio, K.

The Hodgson Singers, University of Georgia’s premiere choral ensemble, take the Hodgson Hall stage in the second to last Thursday Scholarship Series concert of the 2018-19 season. Joining them will be the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, a professional, early-music orchestra. The date of the concert, March 21st, is significant as it is Bach’s birthday and the concert will feature one of his most lauded works.