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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I'd like you to meet two ambassadors for music by J.S. Bach: flutist Brandon Patrick George and harpsichordist and conductor Kenneth Weiss. -
Among the most popular ever composed is Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will play it Sunday, April 13th at Hodgson Concert Hall. -
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Sunday, March 30, at Hodgson Concert Hall, American violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Gloria Chien are playing music by two female composers, Lili Boulanger and Clara Schumann. -
Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will play and conduct Mozart's 21st piano concerto with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Tuesday, March 25th at Hodgson Concert Hall. -
Anoushka Shankar is a sitar player who has blossomed beyond being a prodigy from a famous family. Her father, Ravi Shankar, was the best-known sitarist in the world, and she performed and recorded with him as a teenager. -
On March 15 at Hodgson Concert Hall, the chamber orchestra called Les Arts Florissants celebrates the Four Seasons tricentennial with contemporaneous pieces that put Vivaldi in context. -
Jazz pianist, composer and MacArthur "genius grant" winner Jason Moran is at Hodgson Concert Hall Feb. 27. -
Eighth Blackbird is a Grammy-winning six-person group specializing in new music. They'll play the engaging piece, Doublespeak by Nico Muhly, Thursday, Feb. 20th at Hodgson Concert Hall. -
Just two weeks after a recital here by New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinetist Anthony McGill, the New York Philharmonic String Quartet returns to Hodgson Concert Hall February 16th.
