Sean Arawjo is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, podcaster, and pedagogue with very diverse musical interests. With degrees in Flute Performance (M.M.) and Music Theory and Composition (B.M.), he specializes in new music, free improvisation, and extended techniques while also holding onto a love of traditional solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire. He studied flute with Robert Dick and attended weekly masterclasses with Keith Underwood at New York University. At West Chester University he studied flute with Kimberly Reighley and composition with Robert Maggio, Van Stiefel, Adam Silverman, and Larry Nelson. Sean freelances, performs solo, and is the founder of Persimmon Sounds, a versatile chamber ensemble that plays for weddings and special events. His passion for collaboration and new music led to the creation of the podcast Sean & Dave Make Music, on which Sean and Dave interview and collaborate on new works with a different composer or performer each month.
Sean has been active in the Ska, Punk, and Folk genres for the past 15 years as well. He released his first ska flute album, Constructive Rest in 2016 and his second, Dysania in 2017, both of which are available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes. His music has been featured on podcasts including How Did This Get Made, The Todd Glass Show, and 23 Minutes of Ska and his latest single, To the WhiteS(upremacists) appears on the compilation What Do You Know About Ska Punk? Vol. 2. He also plays ukulele, guitar, and percussion in the indie-folk duo Sillyheart as well as drums, bells, flute, and valve trombone in the band Roof Beams.
These diverse musical interests have afforded him the opportunity to perform at a wide variety of events and venues including sweaty basement shows, the New York Flute Fair, the Vans Warped Tour, and countless other coffee shops, clubs, art spaces, churches, and classical music halls.
Sean currently teaches flute, piccolo, ukulele, alto and tenor saxophones, and clarinet at Accent Music and Concord Music in Wilmington, DE, and at the Darlington Arts Center in Garnet Valley, PA.
Sean has been active in the Ska, Punk, and Folk genres for the past 15 years as well. He released his first ska flute album, Constructive Rest in 2016 and his second, Dysania in 2017, both of which are available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes. His music has been featured on podcasts including How Did This Get Made, The Todd Glass Show, and 23 Minutes of Ska and his latest single, To the WhiteS(upremacists) appears on the compilation What Do You Know About Ska Punk? Vol. 2. He also plays ukulele, guitar, and percussion in the indie-folk duo Sillyheart as well as drums, bells, flute, and valve trombone in the band Roof Beams.
These diverse musical interests have afforded him the opportunity to perform at a wide variety of events and venues including sweaty basement shows, the New York Flute Fair, the Vans Warped Tour, and countless other coffee shops, clubs, art spaces, churches, and classical music halls.
Sean currently teaches flute, piccolo, ukulele, alto and tenor saxophones, and clarinet at Accent Music and Concord Music in Wilmington, DE, and at the Darlington Arts Center in Garnet Valley, PA.
