The University of Georgia welcomes visionary performing artists to Athens from around the world. Please join us as we celebrate the breadth of our shared human experience through unparalleled performances of professional music, dance, and theatre.
Each week, Mark Mobley presents upcoming performances at the UGA Performing Art Center including UGA Presents events, Hugh Hodgson School of Music faculty and student performances, and other ongoing series.
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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For more than 60 years, Del McCoury has embodied the spirit of bluegrass. In the early 1960s, he played and sang with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, and now he tours with his own sons in the Del McCoury Band. -
Pianist Stephen Hough, conductor Robert Spano, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra return to Hodgson Concert Hall Sunday, May 3rd, with a program including Rachmaninoff's towering Third Piano Concerto. -
Since 1969, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has brought together classical stars and emerging artists for concerts in New York and on the road. -
Dance Me: The Music of Leonard Cohen is a multimedia tribute to the singer-songwriter by Ballets Jazz Montreal. It comes to the Classic Center Tuesday, April 21st with more than a dozen of Cohen's best-loved songs. -
Cecile McLorin Salvant is more than a jazz singer. She's also a songwriter, a three-time Grammy winner, a visual artist and a MacArthur genius grant recipient. -
For more than 50 years, conductor and viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall has unearthed vivid, intriguing music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. -
The Tord Gustavsen Trio appears Friday, March 27th at Ramsey Concert Hall. Tord Gustavsen's music is the offspring of American jazz traditions — including instrumentation and improvisation — and European culture. -
Thursday, March 19th, British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason returns to Hodgson Concert Hall with this sonata and another towering Beethoven work, the "Waldstein" Sonata. -
In September 1997, an estimated 2 billion people heard John Tavener's "Song for Athene," as it accompanied the casket of Princess Diana out of Westminster Abbey. -
For 60 years, Brazilian brothers Sergio and Odair Assad have appeared worldwide as a duo of peerless sensitivity and musicality.
