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Sean Riley

A male student, wearing a dark shirt, looking down at a violin.

Violin
Strings
Artist Diploma in Performance and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Sean completed an Artist Diploma in Performance and PhD Â鶹ÊÓƵ. He performs across America, Europe and Asia and is a designer of the world’s first six-string 3D printed electric violin.

Sean specialised in performance training and peer communication in higher music education and his teachers included Radu Blidar, Kyung-Wha Chung, Hyo Kang, Roland and Almita Vamos and Brian Lewis.

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Sean was awarded the Rainwater Innovation Grant to design and 3D print a six-string electric violin to perform John Adams’ The Dharma at Big Sur. In 2021, Netflix released their first in-house Anime entitled Eden, in which Sean is featured as a soloist playing this violin. An enthusiastic advocate for contemporary music, Sean led the RCM’s New Perspective’s Ensemble and was a graduate teaching assistant in contemporary music at the College, going on to hold a professorship at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

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