About Sean Bailey
Making music at the intersection of technology and the creative spirit
Multi-instrumentalist Sean Bailey enjoys an active, interdisciplinary musical career in the Philadelphia area. Sean has performed and/or recorded alongside a spectrum of notable artists and institutions; highlights include (as an ensemble player) the Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia Ballet Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, Andrea Bocelli, Hugh Jackman, and The Who; as a jazz soloist with greats including Randy Brecker, Jimmy Heath, Christian McBride, and Terell Stafford; and, as a session musician and contributing creative improviser for commercials and film scores for studios including Google, Hilton, Legendary Pictures, and Signature Films. An avid chamber musician, Sean is a member of, or collaborator with, new music ensembles including the Bowerbird Arcana ensemble, Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, Relâche, and Revolution Winds. As a guest leader of the Philly POPS Sax Quartet, he has performed his own arrangements on live broadcast television, and he has presented original works at regional and national electroacoustic music conferences. Sean holds teaching posts on clarinet, flute, saxophone, music technology, audio production, and arts entrepreneurship at a number of universities, and he has published numerous recordings as an audio engineer, along with written works through the Audio Engineering Society and the Rutgers Library system, where in 2021 he was awarded a grant to author a free, open-source textbook on arts entrepreneurship. Currently, Sean is a University Fellow and PhD candidate at Temple University, where his dissertation explores musical improvisation, machine learning, and generative composition.