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Hodgson Singers take First Prize in Ave Verum Choral Competition

The great news keep rolling in from the UGA Hodgson Singers European tour, where they have won the Grand Prix Aveverum, 1st prize & best interpretation at the International Ave Verum Choral Competition, held in Baden Austria. Here's the announcement:   And now some music:   Lots other great features on their travel blog, so check it out. Congratulations to choral director Dan Bara and all of our students.


Betrieten sie die UGA Hodgson Singers für ihre Europa-Tour 2014

Or alternatively: Join the UGA Hodgson Singers for their 2014 European Tour! And if you can't make it to Salzburg Castle or Prague, follow the ensemble via the great travel blog they have set up, hodgsonsingers.wordpress.com/ The UGA Hodgson Singers are the major choral ensemble in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, directed by professor Dan Bara. World tours by our performance students, a kind of hybrid study abroad/promotional good…

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Spring Commencement 2014

It's a great week on campus. The 2014 Spring Undergraduate Commencement exercise will be held on Friday, May 9, 2014 at 7 p.m. inside Sanford Stadium. Athens is beginning to flow with excited and proud parents, family members as well as the graduates themselves. An exciting time for all involved, and the reason at the center of all activity at the university. Commencement itself then is a spectacle equal to grandeur of the occasion. And in that…


Turner named new Director of Bands

The Band Program in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music is nationally renowned for multiple reasons, and most have to do with the artistic leadership of outgoing director of bands John Lynch. Whether recordings by the Wind Ensemble or memorable performances by the Redcoat Marching Band, our music students represent the the university exceedingly well, consistently performing at the highest levels, no matter the venue or ensemble. So with Lynch…

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School of Music recitals

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is home to the finest musicians you could ever hope to hear play, sing and perform. Our performance students are required to play recitals as part of their degree programs and every semester, you have the opportunity to come and listen (free!) to many wonderful performances. The recital really stack up at this time of year, with several each day. Have a look at the School of Music calendar, come out and enjoy…

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2nd Thursday to feature UGA Symphony Orchestra

 

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Piano recitals on Wednesday the 8th

And just like that... 2014. Welcome to this year to us all and starting things off just right is the Hugh Hodgson School of Music with two piano recitals on one day, January the 8th, featuring some of the very best: At 5 pm, the Richard Zimdars studio recital will take place in Edge Hall. As much as we wish this was a recital by the great performer and teacher (and Despy Karlas Professor of Piano), this free recital will give Zimdars' students a…

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Hodgson School of Music Holiday Concert Dec. 3

The annual holiday tradition that is the Hugh Hodgson School of Music Holiday Concert continues to grow as the event moves to the Classic Center this Dec. 3: The concert brings together nearly 300 student singers and instrumentalists from the UGA Symphony Orchestra, Bulldog Brass Society and choral ensembles. Led by Hugh Hodgson School of Music professors Daniel Bara and Mark Cedel, the performance will feature a variety of seasonal selections…


Spotlight on the Arts 2013

This year's Spotlight on the Arts kicks off later this week, and in the interest of helping you navigate the tremendous volume of events happening all over campus, here are the events that are most fine-and-performing-arts-centric, in the opinion of your humble Chronicles blog: The Lamar Dodd School of Art will hold a school-wide open house with special activities in the main building, the ceramics building, and the sculpture and jewelry and…


UGA Opera Theatre present Bizet's Carmen

The title itself almost conjures the Habanera melody all on its own. Such a great pleasure - the Hodgson School presents Georges Bizet's Carmen on Thursday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m.: The performance, part of both the UGA Spotlight on the Arts Festival and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series, also features the UGA Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus, and Georgia Children’s Chorus, conducted by professor Mark…


The Nature of Music

Ethnomusicology is the study of why, and how, human beings are musical - a definition that positions ethnomusicology among the social sciences, humanities, and biological sciences dedicated to understanding the nature of the human species in all its biological, social, cultural, and artistic diversity. The Hugh Hodgson Schol of Music welcomes UCLA ethnomusicologist Timothy Rice to campus on Thursday, Oct. 10, where he will present a public…


UGA Wind Ensemble, Concert on Lawn

In what is becoming a terrific campus tradition each fall, the UGA Wind Ensemble, under Director of Bands John Lynch, will present a free Concert on the Lawn on North Campus, Friday, September 20 at 12:30 p.m. Bring your friends and office colleagues (and lunch) and come down to the North Campus quad for some pop selections and light classics from one of the Hodgson School's premiere large ensembles. Here's a video from the first concert in 2011…


Music student wins top international competition

Big congratulations to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and DMA student Lauren Hunt: University of Georgia doctor of musical arts student Lauren Hunt took first prize Sept. 1 in the International Horn Competition of America's university division. Hunt, who began her studies this fall in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, competed against 53 other hornists for the title. The International Horn Competition of America was founded in 1975 to promote…


Engaging Students and Communities in Music Research

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music present a lecture by a noted expert on bringing research into communities and vice-versa. Carol Muller, a South African-born Ethnomusicologist at the University of Pennsylvannia, will speak at the Hodgson Schoo, at 4 p.m. Thursday Sept. 5 in room 408.  Muller has published widely on South African music at home and abroad. Her books include Rituals of Fertility…


Music Scholarship: Power in the Progress

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is renowned for training some of the best conductors, vocalists, cellists, violinists and other instrumental performers in the country. Many of these UGA graduates go on to outstanding international careers and we take great pride in their accomplishments. The Hodgson School also trains some of the best music teachers in America and its impact on the future of the arts in the classroom is at least as important as…


Fantastic faculty recitals

Two great concerts, both free, are offered this week and represent the faculty musicians in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at their finest: Wednesday the 28th. The HHSOM welcomes students and audiences back with a Faculty Showcase! At 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 28, Connie Frigo (saxophone), D. Ray McClellan (clarinet), Reid Messich (oboe), Amy Pollard (bassoon), and David Zerkel (tuba) will take the Ramsey Concert Hall stage for a…


UGA Symphony Orchestra to open 2nd Thursday season Sept.12

The Second Thursday Scholarship Series is one of the great traditions at the university and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and the series is set to begin anew on Thursday Sept. 12: The series' opening concert will feature the UGA Symphony Orchestra Sept. 12 in a performance with bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, a winner of the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The September symphony concert is one of the signal events of the…

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Alumna selected for Sundance composers fellowship

Josh Cutchin in the School of Music reports on the exploits of Athens music scene favorite and Hodgson School alumna Heather McIntosh: Hugh Hodgson School of Music alumna Heather McIntosh was recently selected for a Sundance Institute Film Composers fellowship, an honor that secures her a place at the 2013 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs.  The event, a joint effort between Sundance and Skywalker Sound, will pair…


Broadcast awards for WUGA TV and radio

The Georgia Association of Broadcasters recognized two programs from WUGA television and radio at their annual GABBY Awards honors night: WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV, the radio and television stations at the University of Georgia, won statewide awards for excellence in broadcasting at the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Honors Night held June 7 in Atlanta. "High Shoals Drifter," an audio essay that airs weekly on WUGA-FM, received the award for Best…


African American Choral Ensemble concert Sunday

From its rich beginnings in the early 70's as the Pamoja Singers, the University of Georgia African American Choral Ensemble (AACE) has endeavored to keep concert halls and churches filled with the powerful sounds and wealth of indigenous musical treasures birthed from the African American experience. Since its earliest days at UGA, AACE has been a beacon tower of fellowship for the university community. Herein, people of many cultures come to…


Bela Fleck with UGA Symphony Orchestra

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones are legendary performers with a serious worldwide following. Next week he will perform with our own UGA Symphony Orchestra in what I can only term as an extraordinary concert: Béla Fleck, the world's premier banjo player, for his second Hodgson Hall appearance this season when he returns to perform his new Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra with the UGA Symphony Orchestra on March 26 at 8 p.m. with Mark Cedel…


Steinway Spectacular

Keyboard studies are an integral part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and our faculty boasts American and International award-winning performers and teachers that draw some of the best student-musicians to study at UGA. And each year one date in the 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series is dedicated to the piano - and to the piano maker that supplies the Hodgson School with instruments: More than 25 pianists will join forces for "Steinway…


Tingler recital of songs "Made in America'

Hugh Hodgson School of Music associate professor of voice Stephanie Tingler is a highly decorated composer and performer, whose accolades include national finalist honors in the Bel Canto Opera, Opera Columbus Annual Operatic, and American Traditions competitions. On Monday Feb. 4, Tingler will present some of her favorite songs by American composers: "This recital really is a cross-section of my favorite American compositions for voice,"…

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UGA Opera Theatre presents Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'

This is not to be missed. The UGA Opera Theatre presents a three-day production of Mozart's The Magic Flute: The three-day engagement will feature the UGA Opera Theater in conjunction with the UGA Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Bara, director of choral activities. Frederick Burchinal, director of opera, is the production's producer. Opera coach Kathryn Wright is responsible for musical preparation. The opera will be performed in German…


Rivkin 2nd Thursday Concert

Evgeny Rivikin is one of the great international virtuosos on the faculty at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Already a top award winner as some of the world's most prestigious piano competitions when he arrived at UGA in 1995, Rivkin has anchored the piano studio at the Hodgson School in the time since. His solo recitals have dazzled audiences around the world and at UGA, and his first-of-the-new-year 2nd Thursday concert performances continue…
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