Sean Carmichael – Past Concerts

Dr. Sean Carmichael is currently serving as the pianist for the Quantico Marine Corps Band. Prior to joining the Marine Corp in 2019, Sean was the Director of Music and organist at Grace and St. Paul's Church in New York, NY. He completed a D.M.A. in Piano Performance at the University of Maryland. He received his Masters degree in Piano Performance from SUNY Potsdam, where he studied with pianist and renowned painter, Dr. Paul Wyse.

With a passion for teaching, Sean maintained a private piano studio at the International School of Music in Bethesda, MD, taught at the Jubilee Enrichment Program in New York, NY and spent three summers as piano faculty at the State University of New York at Potsdam's Crane Youth Music summer program, where he taught private lessons and led masterclasses. In March of 2017, he served on the adjudication panel for the 69th annual Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, which attracts over 150,000 students throughout the course of five weeks.

A winner of the Crane Concerto Competition, he performed Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto with the Crane Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Sean has given solo performances at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Rubinstein Hall in Munich, Binghamton's Tri-Cities Opera Center, the Old Forge Arts Center and has toured New York State in a series of outreach performances presenting the Chopin Etudes and Preludes.