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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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. -
The Sphinx Virtuosi are an inspiring self-conducted chamber orchestra that transforms lives through the power of music. -
This remarkably versatile band performs in venues around the world and with an ever-expanding roster of guest artists and symphony orchestras. -
Zhang has captivated audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia with a unique combination of deep musical sensitivity, fearless imagination, and spectacular virtuosity. -
For the sold-out commemorative concert February 1st, Hodgson Concert Hall welcomes a singular citizen of the world, Yo-Yo-Ma.
