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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The world's most famous classical pianist is coming to Hodgson Concert Hall Saturday, April 27th at 7:30 p.m. -
Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński and the early music group Il Pomo D'oro are appearing at Hodgson Concert Hall Sunday, April 21st at 3 p.m. -
The exceptional Danish String Quartet will play Haydn on Friday April 19th at 7:30 p.m. at Hodgson Concert Hall. -
Jordi Savall is a virtuoso string player, like the Yo-Yo Ma of the early music world. He and his group Hesperion XXI are appearing at Hodgson Concert Hall Tuesday, April 9th with a program of gorgeous music from the 16th and 17th centuries. -
The BBC has called them "an icon of Irish music." It's the band Dervish, born 35 years ago out of pub sessions in Northwest Ireland. -
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Sixty years ago, a young South African man had persistent dreams, all involving the sweetest choral singing. He was inspired to give his own vocal group a new approach and a new name: Ladysmith Black Mambazo. -
Friday evening, February 23rd, Hodgson Concert Hall welcomes the return of VOCES8. This Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble is musically omnivorous, with a repertoire that ranges from the Renaissance to modern popular song.
