Colin Mann is Director of Choirs in the Arthur Satz Department of Music at the University of Rochester where he conducts the university Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. He also is Lecturer in Music and the Director of Treble Choir at Nazareth University. As assistant conductor of the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, he conducted a performance of Poulenc’s Gloria in May 2024 and completed a text and rhythm analysis of measured music in Poulenc’s sacred vocal music. Before returning to Rochester, Mann directed secondary school and community choirs throughout western Massachusetts and New England. 

As artistic director of the Monadnock Chorus, Mann conducted a variety of works for chorus and orchestra. Since returning to New Hampshire as chorus master and conductor of the Viva Bach Peterborough Festival, the organization has completed a cycle of seven cantatas and three motets with instruments. Mann has sung with several professional choruses and is a baritone soloist of art song and operatic arias. He has sung solos in Durante Magnificat, Fauré Requiem, and Ethel Smyth Mass in D and has performed Samuel Barber’s “Dover Beach” with the Cushman String Quartet. In 2019, Mann traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to sing Bach St. Matthew Passion with the Malaysia Bach Festival. 

A western New York native, Mann is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting at the Eastman School of Music. Current research interests include choral music of the Baltic and Latin American regions. He earned the Master of Music degree in conducting with an advanced certificate in community music teaching from the Eastman School of Music and the Bachelor of Music degree in music education and voice performance summa cum laude from Fredonia, State University of New York.