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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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. -
Sunday, February 11th at 2 p.m. at Hodgson Concert Hall, the Franklin College Chamber Music Series continues with Poland's award-winning Apollon Musagete Quartet. -
In case you haven't heard, the UGA Performing Arts Center has a new piano — a 9-foot Steinway built in Hamburg, Germany. Next up to play it? Grammy-winning Brad Mehldau, whom the New Yorker calls "arguably the greatest working jazz pianist." -
In the early 1970s, Stevie Wonder was amid a creative outpouring unmatched in American popular music, and a young dance company was shaking up notions of who ballet is by and for. The songs and dancers come together at UGA's Fine Arts Theatre on Saturday, January 27. -
Last year BBC Music magazine took on a daunting task and named the top 10 string quartets from the past century. TWO of their Top 10 are on this UGA Presents season. First up: the young Dover Quartet. -
The next Hodgson Concert Hall performance in our series is by traditional bluegrass royalty. -
What can you get done in three weeks? Lose a few pounds? Straighten up the house? Luxuriate on vacation? If you're George Frideric Handel, all you need is three weeks to write Messiah. -
From the Bible to Dickens, Dr. Seuss to the Hallmark Channel, Christmas has countless stories. But for some musicians, the most powerful is the first. -
Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are fiddlers from Cape Breton, Canada. They're appearing — with their seven children — in a Celtic Family Christmas at Hodgson Concert Hall Wednesday, December 6th. They even have a surprisingly funky take on "The Little Drummer Boy." And all the kids join in on a particularly happy carol. For tickets to A Celtic Family Christmas, visit PAC.UGA.EDU or call the box office at (706) 542-4400. And yes, there will be step dancing. -
Hugh Hodgson School of Music Holiday Concert
