MUSIC
with special guest MARK MOBLEY
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.
RAMSEY CONCERT HALL
SCOTT MULLEN, conductor
NICHOLAS HAN, conductor
Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.
Ramsey Concert Hall
UGA Performing Arts Center
CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
University of Georgia Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Nicholas Han, conductor
Scott Mullen, conductor
Emily Elmore, flute and piccolo
Luis Umbelino, clarinet and bass clarinet
Yun Qu Tan, saxophone
Gilbert Villagrana, trumpet
Rachel Martin, percussion
Zach Helms, cello
Tianbo Zhang, cello
Books & Bronze (2025)
Rhapsody in A Minor (2025?)
On Paper (2022)
I. Paper Airplanes
II. Scratch Paper
III. Wall Paper
IV. Paper Cut
PROGRAM
Avery Britt
Nathan Bine
William A.R. May
PROGRAM
Façade: An Entertainment
I. Fanfare (1902-1983)
II. Hornpipe
III. En Famille
IV. Mariner Man
V. Long Steel Grass
VI. Through Gilded Trellises
VII. Tango-Pasodoble
VIII. Lullaby for Jumbo
IX. Black Mrs. Behemoth
X. Tarantella
XI. The Man from a Far Countree
XII. By the Lake
XIII. Country Dance
XIV. Polka
XV. Four in the Morning
XVI. Something Lines Beyond the Scene
XVII. Valse
XVIII. Jodelling Song
XIX. Scotch Rhapsody
XX. Popular song
XXI. Fox-trot
XXII. Sir Beelzebub
(1902-1983)
Mark Mobely, narrator
William Walton
Mark Mobley is an award-winning writer, producer, programmer and performer. He received the Peabody Award as musical head of the public radio program Performance Today, and the ASCAP/ Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music journalism while at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., the state’s largest newspaper. He now serves as director of marketing and communications at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center.
Mobley has appeared as a performer and lecturer with the Virginia Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Virginia Arts Festival, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Washington Performing Arts Society and pianists Bruce Brubaker and David Robbins.
During a 12-concert hosting run with the Baltimore Symphony — a collaboration between the orchestra and the Baltimore Museum of Art, in which Mobley drew parallels between works in the museum’s collection and pieces of music — the Washington Post called him “informative, popculturally aware and breezily irreverent.” As a standup comic, Mobley has performed at Columbia University, Georgia State University and Baltimore Pride and hosted Hampton Roads Pride at Mt. Trashmore in Virginia Beach.
Mobley is known to Macon, Georgia audiences as the creator of What Color is Your Brother?, a documentary play with music about racial issues in the city; it was produced at the Macon Opera House by Mercer University’s McDuffie Center for Strings and the Youth Actors Company of Theatre Macon. Conductor Ward Stare also led the Rochester Philharmonic premiere of Mobley’s subsequent play True and Devoted, about the legacy of Susan B. Anthony in her home city, Rochester.
Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Nicholas Han earned his Undergraduate degree in Violin Performance at Central Washington University in 2020, and his Masters in Orchestral Conducting at Oklahoma State University in 2023. He is currently pursuing his Doctoral of Music Arts degree at University of Georgia.
In 2022, Nicholas was named assistant conductor for the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony and was the Apprentice Conductor for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic in May 2023. He also is currently the Cover Conductor for the Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra. His recent conducting engagements include guest conducting LA Conducting Workshop and Competition Orchestra and Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 2022, Nicholas was selected as one of 3 winners for the ICWC (International Conducting Workshop and Competition) in Atlanta, Georgia. He was also selected as a 1st place winner and received the Audience Prize in the LA Conducting Workshop and Competition in Garden Grove, California.
He has worked with Mark Gibson, Neil Thomson, Diane Wittery, and Philip Greenberg. His principal mentors include Nikolas Caoile, Thomas Dickey, Alexander Mickelthwate, and Mark Cedel.
R. Scott Mullen is a conductor and music educator, pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Georgia. Scott is a Doctoral Conducting Associate for UGA Bands, serving duties with the Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, and the Redcoat Marching Band. At the University of Georgia, Scott is the recipient of a Graduate School Research Fellowship and the Clementi Holder Student Development Fund. In 2025, his recording of Vital Sines by Viet Cuong with the UGA Wind Ensemble and the GRAMMY Award-winning chamber ensemble 8th Blackbird was selected for multiple broadcasts on NPR’s Performance Today.
Prior to UGA, Scott was a Graduate Assistant at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, Florida. Scott was previously a teacher in Orange County Public Schools, and has maintained activities as an educator and clinician with band programs in Florida and Georgia. His professional affiliations include the National Association for Music Education, the Georgia Bandmasters Association, The Florida Bandmasters Association, The College Band Directors National Association, Kappa Kappa Psi Band Fraternity, and Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society.
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WED 11/19
3:30 p.m.
Ramsey Concert Hall
FREE CONCERT
TUES 9/9
HODGSON STRING QUARTET
Formed in spring 2009, the quartet serves as a representative, ambassadorial ensemble for the music school, reflecting the quality of its student and faculty performers. The intent of the quartet is to provide a featured performing ensemble for music students at UGA, in service of honoring the legacy of Hugh Hodgson.
TUES 9/9
THURS 11/20
FRI 11/21
7:30 p.m.
Both performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall
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ANNUAL HOLIDAY CONCERT
A concert to be thankful for! Once again, Thanksgiving falls so late in the academic calendar that our Annual Holiday Concert will be the week before Thanksgiving. Featuring the Symphony Orchestra, Hodgson Singers and other choirs, Jazz Combos, and more. Forget the Macy’s Parade, join the Hugh Hodgson School of Music for this favorite annual holiday tradition and start the season off right!
7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall FREE CONCERT MON 11/24
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7:30 p.m.
Ramsey Concert Hall FREE CONCERT MON 11/24
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AFRICAN AMERICAN CHORAL ENSEMBLE
Since the 70’s as the Pamoja Singers, the African American Choral Ensemble (AACE) has kept concert halls and churches filled with the powerful musical treasures birthed from the African American experience. AACE is a beacon tower of fellowship and friendship for the university community, conducted by Gregory Broughton.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA REPERTORY SINGERS - “MESSIAH”
This popular Handel oratorio will feature the choir and a full chamber orchestra
The Repertory Singers is a mixed chamber choir directed by graduate student conductors. Its format offers laboratory rehearsal and performance experience for conductors and singers alike.