Leader of contemporary group Ensemble Caduceus, Sean Pentland has been making his mark as composer and arranger and has recently premiered works at Seoul Arts Center Summer Festival among others. Shaped by his years in Great Britain, Germany, and South Korea, he has a worldly musical voice that has led him to perform and tour internationally with masters such as Jerry Bergonzi, Don Braden, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jim Snidero, Luciana Souza, Damon Brown, and Johannes Enders at venues such as Vienna's Porgy and Bess and the Panama Jazz Festival. Also a prolific composer, Sean has premiered large ensemble works at the Naju Contemporary Music Festival in South Korea and will soon release an album of his unique material for an interdisciplinary combination of jazz quintet plus strings.

Sean earned his bachelors in 2007 at New England Conservatory where he studied with masters such as Cecil McBee, Dave Holland, Frank Carlberg, and Don Palma. In 2018 he received his M.M. from Berklee's prestigious scholarship program, the Global Jazz Institue under the guidance of Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, Ben Street, Joe Lovano, Terri Lyne Carrington, David Liebman, and many other stellar faculty.

In 2013-2017 Sean was bass professor at Paekche Institute of the Arts in South Korea. In 2008- 2012 he tutored piano and theory at Edinburgh University and has been a faculty member at the Litchfield Jazz Camp yearly since 2004.

Sean holds a B.M. from New England Conservatory (2007) and an M.M. from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (2018).