About
Sean is quickly integrating himself into the leading stages internationally. Active across Canada and Europe, Sean is growing a reputation as a committed and engaged singer with a vast repertoire.
Recent highlights include being a soloist with the Dutch National Opera for the International Young Patron’s Gala 2024, Carmina Burana with the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), Membra Jesu Nostri with Staatskappelle Köpernick (Berlin) and Ensemble Vocale Vivace (Montréal), Hail, Bright Cecilia with Lionel Meunier, Harrison Birtwistle’s Orpheus Elegies as well as an aria recital with conductor Ed Spanjaard at the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, curating a recital tour of 17th-century Dutch vocal works titled Tulipes baroques, Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Conservatorium van Amsterdam), Proverbs (Score Collective, Performances in Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Eindhoven) AER a solo opera as part of the Opera Forward Festival of the Dutch National Opera, a new opera workshop with Matthew Ricketts and Royce Vavrek (Dawson City).
Sean is one of the members of the trio Amantis Aurem alongside mezzo-soprano Vizma Zvaigzne and pianist Pieter Bogaert. The trio has performed in Amsterdam, Noordwijk, and Nurmiži Latvia. The ensemble’s program is inspired by the seven Greek words for love and uses operatic repertoire to explore each kind of love that exists.
Sean is also a curator of the concert series Echoes of Nothing at the Muziekgebouw aan’t Ij for the second year in a row. Here Sean works to enliven the public spaces of the Muziekgebouw with free concerts in connection with themes of the Grote Zaal programming.
Upcoming
Nieuw Muziek Voor Stem En Orgel Uit Amsterdam - Orgelpark, March 6
Seven Shades of Love, March 7, Amsterdam Pianola Museum
Skarmina Burana - Studentenkoor Amsterdam, March 14 & 15 Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
Opera
Dutch National Opera - Young Patrons Gala, June 8, Amsterdam
Ravel: L’enfant et les sortilèges (Maman), December 15, Conservatorium van Amsterdam
AER - Opera Forward Festival, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, March 10 & 11 2023 Information
Orphée (Cover), Orphée+ - Edmonton Opera, Director: Joel Ivany, Conductor: Sandra Horst, Edmonton, January 28, 31 & February 3, 2023 Information
The Cremation of Sam McGee (Workshop) - Yukon Arts Centre & Klondike Institute of Art, Dawson City, Dec 2022
Opera in the 21st Century with Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, AB) Information
Concert
BWV 130 Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, Bachcantates Utrecht, October 6 2024
Maria: Repertoire of Gregor Werner - August 3, St. Bonifaz Church, Mainz, Germany
Non solo io: Handel, Bononcini, Steffani, Porpora - August 11, Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Germany
Alcina in Concert (Handel) - August 18, Mainz, Germany
Recital: Seven Shades of Love - Tuvāk Zvaigznēm, August 23, Nurmiži, Latvia
Soloist: Carmina Burana - 19:30 June 1, 2024, Orchestre Metropolitain, Pierre Tourville, chef, Montréal, Canada
Soloist: Membra Jesu Nostri - 16:00 June 2, 2024, Ensemble Vocale Vivace, Montréal, Canada
Tulipes Baroques: Music from the Dutch Golden Age - 19:30 March 15, Église Saint-Stansials de Kostka, Montréal, Canada
Tulipes Baroques: Music from the Dutch Golden Age - 14:30 March 16, Knox Presbyterian Church, Ottawa, Canada
Lecture Recital: Britten’s Trailblazing Writing for Countertenor - 19:00 March 19, 2024, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Soloist: Membra Jesu Nostri - St. Laurentius-Kantorei Berlin-Köpernick, Berlin, Germany
Echoes of Nothing - 22:00 April 18, 2024, Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Amstermdam, Netherlands
Final Master’s Recital - 13:30 May 27, 2024 - Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Netherlands
BWV 118 Leichtergesinnte Flattergeister, Bachcantates Utrecht - February 4, 2024, Geertekerk, Utrecht
“Proverbs” with Score Collective.
Début: Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Harrison Birtwistle “Orpheus Elegies”, January 19, 2024
BWV 45 Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch was gut is, Bachcantates Utrecht - September 3 2023, Geertekerk, Utrecht
Academie de la Roche D’Hys - July 2023, Massingy-lès-Vitteaux
Recital - Opera aan Zee, Nordwijk, Netherlands, May 14, 2023
Recital - Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 26, 2023
Messiah - Ensemble Vocal Vivace, & Christophe Gauthier conductor, Montréal, December 17 2022
Recital with Spencer Kryzanowski - Banff Centre, June 8 2022
Songbook XI - Tapestry Opera Toronto, March 11 & 12 2022
Messiah - Early Music Voices & Rosa Barocca, December 19 2021
Scenes
Akhnaten - Akhnaten (Conservatorium van Amsterdam)
The Boy/The Angel - Written on Skin (Banff Centre)
Oberon - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Banff Centre, Conservatorium van Amsterdam)
Marcel - Fantasma (Banff Centre)
Sesto - Giulio Cesare (Banff Centre, Conservatorium van Amsterdam)