Sean Hennessy-Brose

Sean Hennessy-Brose is an Australian pianist.
Early life and education
Hennessy-Brose began studying piano at the age of four. At the age of fifteen, he was awarded a scholarship to The Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide. After being offered an opportunity to study in The Intensive Major Performance Course at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, he moved to Brisbane to study with Natasha Vlassenko.
By age twenty-one he had been a finalist in the Beta Sigma Phi Classical Music Award, the David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship, The Australian National Piano Award, the Retosa Youth Music Scholarship, and the Geelong Advertiser Music Scholarship. In 2001 Sean Hennessy-Brose was awarded a full scholarship to The Australian National Academy of Music. In 2002, he appeared as soloist with the Nizhny Novgarod Philharmony from Russia, under the baton of Alexander Skulsky playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto in Brussels as part of the Musici Artis International Festival.
As a soloist, Hennessy-Brose has performed in many Australian venues including Angel Place Recital Hall in Sydney, Elder Hall in Adelaide, the Ian Hanger Recital Hall in Brisbane, the Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Melba Hall at the, and at Admiralty House in a private performance for the former Governor General of Australia Quentin Bryce. His recordings have been broadcast on ABC FM and 3MBS.
Hennessy-Brose has collaborated with musicians from vastly different musical backgrounds including Naomi Crellin and Sally Cameron, (The Idea of North) Kristian Winther (former lead violin, Australian String Quartet), Blair Harris (cellist in Syzygy Ensemble) The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Sally Cooper, Tim Rollinson (guitarist of Directions In Groove fame) and emerging cabaret star Tommy Bradson in The Sydney Fringe Festival. He has acted as project co-ordinator for a fund raising concert for The Wilderness Society featuring prominant Australian musicians including Merlyn Quaife, Nicholas Carter, Michael Kieran Harvey, Mardi Mcsullea, Raymond Yong and in Horti Hall (Melbourne). Between 2009 and 2013 he toured widely playing keyboards in a cover band. He created a jazz festival in Sydney in 2011 which featured The James Muller Trio, and he performed his own compositions with notible jazz musicians including Sally Cameron, Naomi Crellin, Gary Honor, Briana Cowlishaw, Jade Lumbewe, Dave Groves, Hugh Barrett and Nic Cecire.
In late 2013, Blank Tape Music made a short film of Hennessy-Brose playing Bach and talking about interpretation. His recordings as a soloist and chamber musician went to number 1 in February 2014 on the national Reverbnation classical charts, and in March he released a single on iTunes which he wrote and recorded at Studio 301 in Sydney with Cameron Undy (Bass) Aiden Haworth (Drums) and Naomi Crellin (vocals). Most recently he made his first documentary about composer and pianist, Joe Chindamo.

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