Biography - Sean Reed

Studies under Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College Dublin, under Manfred Stahnke at the Hamburg College of Music and Theater, and at the Eastman School of Music. Active as a composer for classical instrumental ensembles as well as interactive and fixed-media electroacoustic music. Collaborative work with visual art, video, dance, theater, and space-sound installations. International performances of independent and collaborative works, including by soloists of the ensemble modern, within the zeitoper series of the Hanover State Opera, at the Munich Biennale, the CYNETart, IFCT, ISEA, CEAIT and ICMC festivals, the transmediale in Berlin, and at the EMPAC in Troy, NY. Sean Reed has been awarded several prizes and stipends, including within the Nachwuchsforum of the German Society for Contemporary Music (GNM), the Asolo 1st prize for computer art, by the INMM in Darmstadt, the Culture Committee of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. Sean currently teaches postgraduate courses in MIDI, Orchestration, and Composition at Trinity College Dublin, where he has also taught undergraduate courses in Instrumental Composition. Sean is a member of the Dublin Spatial Music Collective.