Piano Studies at the University of Georgia

05/09/2026

Congratulations, Class of 2026! We are so proud of all of our students, especially our Piano Dawgs (most of them pictured here):

Shirley (BM), Lucy K (BA), Akilah (BA), Jayden (BM), Benjamin (BA), Lucy G (BA), Peter (BM), Soyoung (MM), Tiffany (MM), Jasmin (MM), Hyun Hwa (DMA), Jinyue (DMA), Daijing (DMA), Lingyi (DMA), and Aly (DMA)

GO PIANO DAWGS! 🎹 We can’t wait to see all the great things you do!

04/20/2026

Photos from the recent Robert G. Edge undergraduate piano competition, held in (where else? 😊) Edge Recital Hall.

Congratulations to all of the participants for their beautiful performances and hard work! Kudos to the 2026 prizewinners Livana, Jayden, Ethan, and Diego!🙌

We are grateful for Dr. Qing Jiang, this year’s guest judge. Dr. Jiang also gave a wonderful master class afterwards—so great to hear her in action with our terrific young artists!

04/19/2026

Professor Coble, our organ faculty, is featured in an upcoming concert! Link in comments for tickets!

Athens organist John Coble will play the 3,700-pipe Sewell Organ at Piedmont College's 'Great Composers Concert' April 25.

03/26/2026

UGA and the Performing Arts Center were excited to host acclaimed British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason earlier this month! Besides giving a solo program as part of the series, Ms. Kanneh-Mason worked with several of our UGA pianists on works by Bolcom, Bonis, Bach, and Ravel.

03/19/2026

Wonderful to have Dr. Melody Quah at UGA for a master class and guest artist recital earlier this month! We also loved hearing her performance of “forked,” the work she commissioned from our fabulous composition faculty member Dr. Emily Koh 🙌

03/16/2026

MORE MASTER CLASSES! 😍

Our students recently performed works by George Crumb, Jennifer Higdon, and Peter Underhill for pianist Clare Longendyke. Huge thanks to Dr. Longendyke for her dynamic, insightful teaching!

03/10/2026

Continuing our master class series: Cliburn gold medalist Haochen Zhang came to Athens and presented a beautiful solo program, plus a master class for our UGA pianists!

03/06/2026

Our second master class of this semester: it was an honor to have Robert McDonald (Juilliard/Curtis) as the UGA Symposium headliner! Pre-college and UGA pianists had the special opportunity to play for Professor McDonald as part of our first Steinway Spiriocast! Professor McDonald also gave a fabulous solo recital the previous evening.

03/04/2026

MASTER CLASSES GALORE……so many this semester! ❤️ 🎹

First up: our UGA students were so fortunate to work with Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in January. He also gave a phenomenal solo program at the UGA Performing Arts Center during his residency.

01/31/2026

Due to the high likelihood of winter weather challenges, All ON CAMPUS SYMPOSIUM EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELED.

The Symposium is shifting to a live ZOOM session this afternoon (Saturday, 1/31) with our featured pedagogy presenter, Dr. Omar Roy:

2:00-2:45 PM: Repertoire Roadmaps: Taking the Guesswork out of Repertoire Assignment

3:00-3:45 PM: Unlocking Efficiency: Leveraging A.I. in the Piano Studio

ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/94398507902

We are also working on recordings of other originally scheduled events with Symposium headliner Robert McDonald, which may be shared with registered participants at a later date. Community members who are interested in watching the virtual Symposium events are encouraged to follow the Symposium website and social media updates.