Sean Clarey is a guitarist, producer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist. Sean has been teaching privately for 11 years and has been a mentor to hundreds of students.
Sean attended Humber College and has performed alongside Larnell Lewis, Luis Deniz, Ahmed Mitchell, Andrew Stewart, Christian McBride, Larry Goldings, Donny Mccaslin, Lorne Lofsky, Ted Quinlan, Robi Botos, and other notable artists. Sean tours, performs, and records regularly with ‘ART the Band’, ‘Shipley Hollow’, ‘Angles Jackson’, ‘The David Diao Quartet’, ‘Matt Lagan Group’, and his own group. Sean has performed at Toronto TD Jazz Festival, Newmarket Jazz Festival, RCK Pro Jazz, CMW, NXNE, Indie Music Week, and other Festivals both Canadian and International. Sean began studying music formally at age 5.
Sean is the recipient of the ‘Kim Mitchell Scholarship,’Kevin Mackle Memorial Scholarship’, and the ‘Gordon and Anne Wragg Scholarship’, And the ‘Humber College Community Music Guitar Award’. Head of The Guitar Dept. at Humber College Ted Quinlan has described Sean’s playing as “Effortless, with great fluidity”.
