About

Sean Mayes is a New York City and Toronto-based music director. As an MD & conductor, his work has involved productions on stages across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He is an active member of the Broadway community as an MD, orchestrator-arranger, vocal coach, accompanist & pit musician. In Spring 2019, Mr Mayes was Music Director and Conductor of the all-Canadian premiere of The Color Purple. As an author, Mr Mayes has published on the role of Black music directors on Broadway (Reframing the Musical, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and the retracing of Black practitioners through British musical theatre history (An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre, Bloomsbury, 2021).

Music

Anywhere between the worlds of musical theatre to pop to classical, and all in between.

Ensemble profiles

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  Jasmine Wilson, Dante Harrell & Sean Mayes

  • Instrument: Vocal & Piano
  • Location: New York, NY

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Past groupmuses (1)

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  Planetary Music Virtual Premiere

  Juneteenth Jubilation: A Vocal Celebration of African American Freedom

  Saturday, Jun 19, 2021 5:00 PM EDT

  • Neighborhood: New York, NY
  • Composers: Bonds, Grant Still, Ellington
  • Instruments: Soprano, tenor & piano
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $10+ at event

  Happened almost 3 years ago