Sean trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire with Julian Pike and continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Neil Mackie.
A versatile tenor equally at home on both the opera stage and concert platform, Sean has performed all over the world including Opera Garnier, Opera Comique and Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Opera National de Bordeaux, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Marinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Lincoln Centre in New York. Radialsystem V in Berlin, the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms and the Barbican in London, Glyndebourne Opera, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the National Concert hall in Dublin and the Wexford Festival Opera.
In 2009, Sean was invited to be part of Le Jardin des Voix, the young artists program of Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie. Since then he has sung several roles and choral projects, including music of Scarlatti and Charpentier. Since 2011, Sean has been a part of Les Arts Florissants' Madrigal project directed by Paul Agnew, performing all eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals and all 6 Books by Carlo Gesualdo (winning among many others, 2 Gramophone Awards for the recordings) and most recently Italian madrigals by Heinrich Schütz. Sean has been invited to sing with many other ensembles and directors recently including Cappella Mediterranea with Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Les Ambassadeurs with Alexis Kossenko, Le Poème Harmonique with Vincent Dumestre, Ensemble Pygmalion with Raphaël Pichon, Ensemble Correspondences with Sébastien Dauce and A Nocte Temporis directed by Reinoud van Mechelen. He also a member of Ensemble Perspectives, a 5 member vocal group that explores the diversity of a cappella repertoire, from Thomas Tallis to the Beatles via György Ligeti and Duke Ellington.
Recent and current opera engagements include Jupiter in Naïs by Rameau with Il Giardino d'Amore & Stefan Plewniak (Bydgoszcz Opera Festival and The Lutosławski Concert Studio Warsaw), Shepherd in Monteverdi's Orfeo with Les Arts Florissants directed by Paul Agnew, Don Carlos & Tacmas in Les Indes Galantes by Rameau with Il Giardino d'Amore & Stefan Plewniak (Bydgoszcz Opera Festival and The Lutosławski Concert Studio Warsaw), Messenger in Theodora by Handel (Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris); Démocrite in Les Fêtes Vénitiennes by Campra (Opéra Comique, Paris), Berger in La Naissance d'Osiris by Rameau (Théâtre de Caen), Berger in Acteon by Charpentier; Summer in Purcell's The Fairy Queen (Glydebourne Opera), Secrecy in Purcell's The Fairy Queen (Festival Aix-en-Provence), Blindman in a stage creation of Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle (Nico and the Navigators, Berlin) Little Bat / Susannah; Sailor / Dido and Aeneas (English Touring Opera), Sandy / The Lighthouse (Montepulciano Festival), Aurelius / King Arthur (Der Lautten Compagney), Don Eusebio / L’occasione fa il ladro (Wexford Festival Opera), Fenton / The Merry Wives of Windsor (Opera South) and Giocondo / La pietra del paragone and Fenton / Falstaff (Stanley Hall Opera).