Mark Mobley
Mark Mobley became director of marketing and communications for the UGA Performing Arts Center after teaching for three years in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. He is a veteran journalist and radio producer who worked for NPR in various capacities over 20 years. He won the Peabody Award as musical head of Performance Today, and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music journalism while serving as music critic and feature writer at the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis has taken on many roles: classical soloist, Tonight Show bandleader, sideman for Sting and for the Grateful Dead. -
Now the Atlanta Symphony is returning to Athens with the full Beethoven's Ninth, Friday November 14th at Hodgson Concert Hall. -
A theme for our 2025-26 season is Nordic Dream: Voices from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Tuesday, October 28th marks the return of Dreamers' Circus, a wide-ranging folk trio that met 15 years ago at a jam session in Copenhagen. -
The celebrated Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt will be playing October 26th at Hodgson Concert Hall, opening with familiar preludes and fugues by J.S. Bach. -
The Camerata Nordica Octet visits Hodgson Concert Hall Oct. 15, marking the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's Octet for strings, composed when he was just 16 years old. -
It's Bachtoberfest in Athens! Music of J.S. Bach is on the docket October 9th as Grammy-winning mandolinist Chris Thile visits Hodgson Concert Hall. -
Three hundred years ago, J.S. Bach wrote some of his most inspired and moving music for a single small instrument: the solo violin. -
So much music begins with a heartbeat and a hum, a pulse and a drone. The Swedish duo Symbio is a unique combination of accordion and a hurdy-gurdy, a very old-fashioned hand cranked string instrument. -
Friday, September 19, UGA Presents the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Classic Center Theatre. Their program features Company B: Songs Sung by the Andrews Sisters. -
The UGA Performing Arts Center celebrates its 30th anniversary this season. UGA Presents, which brings international artists to Athens, opens September 11 at Hodgson Concert Hall with Tony-winning Broadway star Lea Salonga.
