At just 10 years of age, Sean Grace performed solo at Carnegie Hall. At 11, he won the U.S. championship for Irish traditional music on both the flute and the tin whistle. At 12, he entered the Juilliard School of Music on scholarship and by the time he graduated high school he would be the featured soloist with a symphony orchestra on one night and on the next sharing the stage with some of jazz greats at New York’s Bottom Line.

The son of Irish immigrant parents and the youngest of eight, Sean Grace was a child prodigy who from a very early age demonstrated a unique musical talent. Although performing Mozart flute concertos in front of adoring audiences as a pre-pubescent wunderkind was plenty fun, he got far more enjoyment out of playing Jethro Tull cover tunes with his junior-high school rock band.  It was from these early and wildly different experiences that formed the foundation of what was to become a truly original and innovative composer and performing artist.

Compared to both James Galway and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Grace brings together the often disparate worlds of classical, jazz, celtic-folk, and progressive rock.  As music critic RJ Lannan stated: "Grace's celtic-rock meets instrumental jazz formula puts him in his own class of musical wizardry."

Grace’s first nationally distributed album was Celtic Voyage. After its release in 1995 it quickly became the best selling record in its category for the Border’s Books & Music chain. That same year, the Sean Grace Band headlined a series of concerts for Amnesty International raising both awareness and money for Irish prisoners of war. Grace spent the next several years performing with his band and working on new compositions for his next effort - New Frontiers.

Released in spring 2004, New Frontiers was one of XM Satellite Radio’s “Best Picks” of that year and then went on to achieve #1 record of the year with “most-spins” on over 200 new-age/world-music radio stations world-wide (NAR).  Not stopping there, the single “Street Flight” went on to debut at #3 for “most-station-adds” on the R&R Smooth Jazz radio chart in January ’05.

Over the past several years Grace has performed over 150 concerts throughout the middle-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. adding thousands more to his rapidly growing legion of fans.  In 2008, Grace was chosen to be the featured artist at the Emerging Artist concert presented by the prestigious Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Other recent concerts have featured special guest Grammy Winner and latin jazz legend Dave Valentin.

With a captivating and energetic stage presence, most fans would agree that to witness Grace live is by far the better way to experience his artistry. In concert, when he's not breathlessly burning up the keys on one of his many flutes and whistles he's either dancing about the stage with his arsenal of frame drums and hand percussion or charming audiences with his stories and “good crac” (banter). A true entertainer who’s appeal transcends genre and generation.   

Grace has been featured on CBS News, News12 Long Island, Newsday, The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, New York Times, Jazz Times Magazine, Irish Music Magazine and in numerous other media.

Spring 2010