University of Georgia Performing Arts Center

10/10/2025

Our Piedmont Athens Regional Performances for Young People Series continues later this month with a performance by 123 Andrés. This Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award winning music duo plays catchy songs to get young people singing and learning with high-energy, joyful music celebrating the Latinx experience. Performances incorporate Spanish, English, and ASL.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/4npgAYG.

10/09/2025

On October 15, Sweden’s Camerata Nordica Octet will perform at UGA for the first time. The program includes Hanna Helgegren’s beautiful “The Nordic Seasons” — Inspired by Scandinavian folk music. Here’s a sneak peek!

10/09/2025

Camerata Nordica Octet plays Mendelssohn’s glorious Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, during the group's first visit to Athens October 15. Check out this sneak peek, filmed at a castle in Sweden over the summer: https://youtu.be/TFU_Z48MYWA?si=JGmS3zlKGiRnu4ru.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Octet in E-Flat, Op. 20 - IV PrestoCamerata Nordicaviolin - Shuichi Okada, Hanna Helgegren, Katarzyna Szydlowska, Daina Mateik...

10/08/2025

This year's Payne Memorial Concert featured the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble in its first UGA visit since 2012. The eight musicians played three works: Welsh composer Huw Watkins's Octet (commissioned for this tour), Jean Francaix’s delightful Parisian-flavored Octet, and Beethoven's Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20. The latter was enormously popular during Beethoven's lifetime and is still admired as one of the finest septets ever written.

(Photos: Kent Hannon)

10/06/2025

We're thrilled to welcome the return of world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt October 26 as part of our 30th anniversary season. She last performed in Hodgson Concert Hall with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra during our opening week celebrations in 1996! For her highly anticipated return, Hewitt will perform a program that traverses centuries of contrapuntal mastery, from Johann Sebastian Bach’s "Well-Tempered Clavier" to Brahms’s monumental Handel Variations.

Read more: http://bit.ly/42qolVQ.

“Hewitt’s mastery of distinct voices flowing in clear counterpoint was second to none, in a performance richly satisfying on every level.”—New York Classical Review The UGA Performing Arts Center continues […]

10/05/2025

The wonderful violinist Augustin Hadelich made his highly anticipated UGA Presents debut last Tuesday. His exceptional virtuosity and expression were on full display as he played J.S. Bach's Partita No. 2, Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 5 in G Major, and works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Niccolò Paganini.

Photos: Kent Hannon

10/01/2025

Dreamers' Circus is three musicians from Denmark and Sweden who blend Nordic folk, jazz, classical, and pop into a captivating, contemporary sound. The music showcases their virtuosic talent on fiddle, accordion, piano, and cittern with rhythmically rich, traditional melodies.

Read more: http://bit.ly/4nrIfbs.

09/30/2025

UGA Presents welcomes the Camerata Nordica Octet to Hodgson Concert Hall on Wednesday, October 15. The concert is part of the “Nordic Dream: Voices from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden” series and will feature the world premiere tour of Hanna Helgegren’s "The Nordic Seasons," a piece with film inspired by Scandinavian folk music.

Read more: http://bit.ly/4gDNKRT.

UGA Presents welcomes the Camerata Nordica Octet to Hodgson Concert Hall on Wednesday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m. The concert, part of the “Nordic Dream: Voices from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden” series, will […]

09/29/2025

Reaffirming her celebrated legacy and meaningful connection to UGA, renowned pianist Angela Hewitt returns to Hodgson Concert Hall with a program showcasing her acclaimed interpretations of J.S. Bach in selections from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" and more.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/3IKEw9N.

09/28/2025

Symbio brought cinematic electro-folk music to Ramsey Concert Hall last Thursday. The catchy, ethereal folk-inflected tunes paired two centuries-old instruments—the accordion and hurdy-gurdy—with modern Scandinavian creativity.

(Photos: Kent Hannon)

09/25/2025

Eight musicians from Camerata Nordica, Sweden’s leading chamber orchestra, make their UGA Presents debut in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn’s Octet, performed exactly two centuries after its completion. The performance will also include a selection of music inspired by Scandinavian folk songs, played in front of gorgeous filmed footage of the region's natural wonders.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/46hKecf.