Sean McClowry Double bassist and composer, Sean McClowry, is equally active in both the classical and jazz idioms. He is currently a composition fellow at Princeton University where he is enrolled in the PhD program.  He received an MM from the Yale School of Music and a BM from Peabody Conservatory.  As a composer, his music has been awarded the Leo Kaplan Award in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Competition, first prize in the Lee Ettleson Composition Competition, and first prize in the Prix d’ete Composition Competition.  He has studied composition with Steve Mackey, Nicholas Maw, Chen Yi, and Chris Theofanidis.  He has been commissioned by the Dogs of Desire, American Guild of Organists, and the Yale Summer Cabaret. As a double bassist, Sean plays jazz and classical music and has studied with Donald Palma, Paul Johnson, and Dave Santoro.  He has performed with Roy Hargrove and Pablo Ziegler and has been a featured performer at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Duke Ellington Fellowship Concerts, and the Composer’s Inc Concert Series.  Sean has served on faculty at University of Maryland Baltimore County where he taught double bass and jazz history.  He has also taught music theory at Yale University and has served on staff at the Litchfield Summer Jazz Camp.  Sean is a founding member of GROUP435 String Orchestra, which is an unconducted 17 piece ensemble that performs new and traditional music for strings.  He is currently residing in Brooklyn, NY where he likes to take advantage of all of the great restaurants.