VISITING ENSEMBLES
The composition area regularly hosts professional ensembles for residencies at UGA. These residencies allow students to work side-by-side with professional ensembles through reading sessions, workshops, masterclasses, performances, recording sessions and round-table discussions on professional development.
The visiting ensemble for Spring 2021 is the Atlanta-based ensemble vim.
Recent visiting ensembles include:
- Ensemble Vim (Spring 2021)
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Robert Spano (Fall 2020, postponed indefinitely)
- Hinge Ensemble (Spring 2020)
- Bent Frequency (Spring 2019)
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Robert Spano (Fall 2018)
- Departure Duo (Spring 2018)
- Hocket Ensemble (Spring 2017)
- Transient Canvas (Spring 2016)
CCE
CCE, formally known as Rote Hund Muzik, is changing its name and entire outlook on life and music-making! CCE is a place for upperclassmen and graduate composers, performers and conductors to break down silos of genres, challenge conventions of traditional chamber music, experiment with music-making, performing, the performance experience. In the Spring, this flexible ensemble will focus on preparing and recording music composed by UGA composers in collaboration with coaching and conducting by graduate conducting students.
D@wgByt3s
D@wgByt3s is a UGA-based electronic music ensemble. Performing primarily compositions by UGA student and faculty composers, DawgBytes explores the cutting-edge of technology in music and multimedia performance. Drawing on students who have taken the 2-semester course sequence in Electronic Music Composition (as well as students from outside the composition area with some electronic music experience and who are interested in digital music-making), the ensemble works in a variety of environments (Max/MSP, Ableton Live, ROLI Equator, etc.) to explore the art of music composition in the digital world.
DANCZ STUDIOS-IN-RESIDENCE:
Each year, one or more performance studios are designated to work alongside the composition area in semester-long or year-long residencies. These studios collaborate with UGA composers in the creation, performance, and recording of student works, through events such as listening parties, student and faculty-led seminars, workshops and concerts.
The 2020/2021 Dancz studio-in-residence is Dr. Jame Naigus’ horn studio.
Previous studios-in-residences:
- 2020 Spring: Dr. Elizabeth Knight's voice studio and Dr. Daniel Bolshoy's guitar studio (joint residency)
- 2019 Fall: Professor Angela Jones-Reus' flute studio
- 2018/2019: Professor Maggie Snyder's viola studio and Dr. Joshua Bynum's trombone studio
- 2017/2018: Dr. Connie Frigo's saxophone studio
LARGE ENSEMBLE COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE:
The three top ensembles at UGA—the UGA Symphony Orchestra, Hodgson Singers and Hodgson Wind Ensemble—host a competition among student composers on a triennial rotation. The selected composer works with the closely with the ensemble throughout the school year, and composes a new work that will be premiered by the host ensemble in the Spring semester each academic year.
2020-2021: Hodgson Wind Ensemble | composer-in-residence: Ayako Pederson-Takeda (BM'22)
2019-2020: Hodgson Singers | composer-in-residence: Benjamin Dawson (DMA’21)
2018-2019: UGA Symphony Orchestra | composer-in-residence: Sydney Doemel (BM’20)
STUDENT COMPOSERS ASSOCIATION (SCA) RECITALS:
The Student Composers Association hosts recitals every semester in which works composed by UGA student composers are presented.
LOOP10 CONCERTS:
The Loop10 series challenges student composers with themed interdisciplinary projects, often bringing them into collaborations with creatives in non-musical fields. Recent Loop10 events have involved the ATHICA contemporary art gallery and the UGA Integrative Conservation Conference.