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.
-
It isn't Christmas in Athens until the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus perform Handel's Messiah at Hodgson Concert Hall. -
Thursday, December 18th, banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck and the Flecktones appear with a program called Jingle All the Way, including sacred and secular holiday favorites. -
The celebrated Irish folk band Lúnasa returns to Hodgson Concert Hall after a three-year absence with an expanded six-person lineup and a program designed for the season. -
It's that time of year again! The Performing Arts Center is decorated with Christmas trees, wreaths, garlands and tiny lights. -
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.
