Leader of contemporary group Ensemble Caduceus, Sean Pentland has been making his mark as composer and arranger and has premiered works at the 2023 Seoul Arts Center Summer Festival, the 2021 Naju Contemporary Music Festival, and other venues around Korea. Many of these pieces will be included on Ensemble Caduceus's new album to be released in early 2025.

Additionally, Sean co-leads a quartet together with saxophone legend Jerry Bergonzi and contributes much of the repertoire for that group. The quartet also features rising stars Julian Shore (piano) and JK Kim (drums) and the intergenerational convergence of creative minds gives rise to unique and sincere music. The Pentland/Bergonzi Quartet's new album will also come out in early 2025.

Shaped by his years in Great Britain, Germany, and South Korea, where he presently lives, Sean's worldly musical voice has led him to perform and tour internationally with masters such as Don Braden, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jim Snidero, Luciana Souza, Bobby Wellins, Tina May, Damon Brown, Johannes Enders, and Jerry Bergonzi at venues as far-reaching as Vienna's Porgy and Bess, the Beijing Blue Note, the Panama Jazz Festival, Biblioteca Alexandrina, and many other venues and festivals around the world.

At New England Conservatory Sean studied with masters Cecil McBee, Dave Holland, John McNeil, Frank Carlberg, and Don Palma among others. Later he graduated from Berklee's prestigious scholarship program, the Global Jazz Institue having studied under the generous guidance of Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, Ben Street, Joe Lovano, Terri Lyne Carrington, David Liebman, and many other stellar teachers.

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).