The international award-winning UGA Hodgson Singers serves as the premiere, ambassadorial choral ensemble of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA and is conducted by Daniel Bara, the John D. Boyd UGA Foundation Professor of Choral Music. Comprised primarily of undergraduate music-majors studying at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the choir has performed by invitation in recent years for the American Choral Directors Association Southern Division Convention (2014, 2018, 2024), Georgia Music Educators Association (2011, 2017, 2023), and in concert with Kathleen Battle, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, Andrea Bocelli, The Kings Singers, with whom it co-commissioned a choral work by Nico Muhly that had its North American premiere in Hodgson Hall in January 2018, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the acclaimed professional British choir, Tenebrae, and The Atlanta Symphony. In 2014 it was the Grand Prix winner at The International Choral Competition Ave Verum in Baden, Austria, where it also won the prize for best interpretation of a 20^th-century work, and in 2023 the choir won Second Prize in the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition, where its performances received the highest performance classification of “Excellent on an International Level.” The Hodgson Singers released its first internationally distributed recording, Grace Immaculate: Prayers and Love Songs, on the Gothic Records label in June 2017.  Known for its polished and dramatically compelling performances, the choir regularly engages in outreach and recruitment initiatives with high school singers in and around Georgia, and relishes the opportunity to share its love of choral music with audiences far and wide.

In addition to expressing your interest in a choir via the UGA Choirs website, students should sign-up for a brief audition/placement hearing.