Sherwood Mobley

Since 1991, Sherwood Mobley has served as Principal Timpanist with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. His previous positions include Principal Timpanist with Maracaibo (Venezuela) Symphony Orchestra and Macon (GA) Symphony Orchestra. He received the Bachelor of Music degree from Boston Conservatory and Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory. His principal teachers were Walter Tokarczyk, Arthur Press, and Vic Firth. He has done coaching sessions with William Kraft and Paul Yancich. Mr. Mobley has worked under the batons of such noted conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Klaus Tennstedt, and the late Erich Leinsdorf and Robert Shaw. With various orchestras, Sherwood has toured the United States and countries in South America. On three different occasions, he has toured several countries in Europe.

Mr. Mobley has performed Russell Peck's Harmonic Rhythm, Timpani Concerto with South Carolina Philharmonic, Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Mobile (Alabama) Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Symphony Orchestra, and the Municipal Orchestra of Caracas in Venezuela.

Mr. Mobley is actively involved in academia. He has served on the faculties of Reinhardt College, Columbus State University, and Clark Atlanta University in Georgia. In Venezuela, he taught at the Ninos Cantores Institute and Jose Luis Paz Conservatory. He served as interim instructor of percussion for one semester at Furman University in Greenville, SC and is currently on the faculty at South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.

As a freelance musician, Mr. Mobley has performed with numerous Broadway touring companies and with major artist such as Diana Ross, The Temptations, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis, and the late Barry White, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr.

Mr. Mobley resides in Simpsonville, SC with his wife Debbie Paden Mobley and their daughters, Naomi and Sarah.