Events for December 2024

Each year at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the Composition Area presents a “composer in residence” who collaborates with one of our large ensembles. This year, they will be working with the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra to develop a world premiere performance. From the sound and concept of this piece, conductor Mark Cedel […]

This is a unique opportunity to hear the three newest faculty at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music offer a shared concert. Featuring new assistant professor of cello James Kim, newly appointed assistant professor of saxophone Brandon Quarles, and newly appointed assistant professor of piano Alan Woo, this concert will include a wide range of […]

Hector Berlioz wrote semi-autobiographical program notes for this piece that allude to the romantic sufferings of a gifted artist who has poisoned himself with opium because of his unrequited love for a beautiful and fascinating woman. The artist’s reveries take him to a ball and to a pastoral scene in a field, which is interrupted […]

“... and The Mountains Rising Nowhere” was written by Joseph Schwantner for Donald Hunsberger and the Eastman Wind Ensemble with the aid of a Composer Fellowship Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts. It was based on a poem by Carol Adler. This and other pieces, including Rise by Adam Schoenberg, evoking complex […]

The “Classical” period in music directly followed the Baroque. This concert features two composers who were quintessential in creating the sound known today as Classical music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a short-lived but prolific composer, creating over 800 works. Franz Joseph Haydn is considered instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string […]