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Sean Griffin (born May 16, 1968 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American Sean Griffin is a composer, artist and director who lives and works in Los Angeles. His multi-faceted works positioned at the intersection of sound, action, performance and the archive, manifests as chamber music, opera, percussion theater, collaborative installations, and numerical choreographies. Incorporating research, historical re-stagings, games and popular media forms, his works often explore technical aspects of historical performance that resonate with contemporary political action and identity. Griffin frequently collaborates with Charles Gaines, Aiyun Huang, Catherine Sullivan.

His works have been commissioned, published and presented internationally by Los Angeles’ REDCAT, Armand Hammer Museum , LACMA , June in Buffalo, Berlin’s Volksbuhne, Secession Vienna , London’s Royal Academy and the Tate Modern , Festival d’Avignon , Taipei City Arts Festival, Walker Art Center , Centre Pompidou , Festival BOM 2010 in Seoul, Korea , the Whitney Biennial, EMPAC  and the MATA Festival.

After entering the California Institute for the Arts in piano performance, Griffin received an MFA studying with Mel Powell and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego studying with co-chairs Chaya Czernowin and George Lewis. He also studied cello and composition with Witold Szalonek at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin.

He was recently awarded a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, the 2011 Herb Alpert Yaddo Residency, and an EMPAC Commission 2010 for which filmmaker Mick Bello made the 40-minute documentary Sean Griffin: Cold Spring - behind the scenes. In 2010, Griffin founded Opera Povera, an interdisciplinary opera performance and design consortium. Artist's Website: www.seangriffin.org