School of Music welcomes Colin Mann; new Assistant Professor of Music and Associate Director of Choral Activities

Colin Mann will begin as Assistant Professor of Music and Associate Director of Choral Activities at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia in August 2025. Mann will conduct the Georgia Treble Choir, UGA Glee Club, University Chorus, and Choral Project as well as teach graduate choral literature and advise graduate conducting students. 

In May of 2025, Mann led the Nazareth Treble Choir in a choral tour to Poland where students performed at national festivals in Kraków and collaborated with choirs at the University of Rzeszów. Mann’s current scholarship focuses on national singing trends and new choral music in the Baltic states. His research has been buoyed by contemporary Lithuanian composers, conductors, and professional vocal ensembles like the Vilnius Municipal Choir Jauna Muzika. 

He has conducted several choral-orchestral works including Poulenc Gloria, Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore, Duruflé Requiem, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, Finzi In terra pax, and he has helped prepare Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem with the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Eastman Philharmonia. As chorus master and conductor of the Viva Bach Peterborough Festival in New Hampshire since 2022, Mann has conducted over ten cantatas and three motets with instruments. In 2019, Mann traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to perform Bach St. Matthew Passion with the Malaysia Bach Festival. 

As a guest clinician, Mann has been invited to work with singers of all ages. He has conducted workshops and masterclasses with students from California, Massachusetts, and New York and with many student chapters of the American Choral Directors Association. Recently, he conducted the Albany and Saratoga Springs All-County festivals and the Fredonia Collegiate Choral Festival. 

Mann holds the BM degree in music education and voice performance from the State University of New York at Fredonia; the MM degree in conducting with an advanced certificate in community music teaching from the Eastman School of Music; and the DMA degree in conducting from the Eastman School of Music.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Georgia, Mann served on the faculties of the University of Rochester, Nazareth University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the Williston Northampton School.