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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A theme for our 2025-26 season is Nordic Dream: Voices from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Tuesday, October 28th marks the return of Dreamers' Circus, a wide-ranging folk trio that met 15 years ago at a jam session in Copenhagen. -
The celebrated Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt will be playing October 26th at Hodgson Concert Hall, opening with familiar preludes and fugues by J.S. Bach. -
The Camerata Nordica Octet visits Hodgson Concert Hall Oct. 15, marking the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's Octet for strings, composed when he was just 16 years old. -
It's Bachtoberfest in Athens! Music of J.S. Bach is on the docket October 9th as Grammy-winning mandolinist Chris Thile visits Hodgson Concert Hall. -
Three hundred years ago, J.S. Bach wrote some of his most inspired and moving music for a single small instrument: the solo violin. -
So much music begins with a heartbeat and a hum, a pulse and a drone. The Swedish duo Symbio is a unique combination of accordion and a hurdy-gurdy, a very old-fashioned hand cranked string instrument. -
Friday, September 19, UGA Presents the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Classic Center Theatre. Their program features Company B: Songs Sung by the Andrews Sisters. -
The UGA Performing Arts Center celebrates its 30th anniversary this season. UGA Presents, which brings international artists to Athens, opens September 11 at Hodgson Concert Hall with Tony-winning Broadway star Lea Salonga. -
Our season comes to an end with one of the great musical beginnings. -
