Prof. Sean Gregory

Key details:

Department:
Innovation
Role:
Vice-Principal & Director of Innovation and Engagement
Contact details:
sean.gregory@gsmd.ac.uk
Sean Gregory
Photo by Paul Cochrane

Biography & Pure profile

Sean Gregory is Vice Principal and Director of Innovation & Engagement, responsible for the development and delivery of a range of collaborative, socially engaged and wider lifelong learning programmes across Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Alongside working as a composer, performer, and creative producer, he has led participatory arts projects for all ages and abilities in association with many British and international orchestras, opera companies, theatres, galleries, and arts education organisations.

Sean has previously held a range of roles at the Barbican and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, including Director of Creative Learning, Head of the Centre for Creative and Professional Practice and Head of Professional Development.

He also set up and ran the Guildhall Connect programme which won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2005 for its pioneering music leadership and creative ensemble activity with young people in East London.

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Recent Research Outputs

Creative practices in music and social engagement: Reflections on a Brazilian experience

Gregory, S., & Feichas, H. (2024). Creative practices in music and social engagement: Reflections on a Brazilian experience: 25th CEPROM Commission Pre-Conference Seminar Proceedings 2024.

Journeys of Lifelong Learning in Music: Musicians engaging with new audiences (interview). In: Perspectives on Musicians’ Identity and Professional Performance

Smilde, R., & Gregory, S. (2021). Journeys of Lifelong Learning in Music: Musicians engaging with new audiences (interview). In: Perspectives on Musicians’ Identity and Professional Performance. Eburon Academic Publishers.

'The 'Golden Thread': A Lifelong Learning Continuum for Creative Practitioners Working “Without Boundaries'. In Kann Kultur Politik? Kann Politik Kultur? Why we need to talk more again about culture and politics

Gregory, S. (2020). 'The 'Golden Thread': A Lifelong Learning Continuum for Creative Practitioners Working “Without Boundaries'. In Kann Kultur Politik? Kann Politik Kultur? Why we need to talk more again about culture and politics. (De Geuyter.

Unleashed: Collaboration, Connectivity and Creativity

Gregory, S., & Wiegold, P. (Ed.) (2015). Unleashed: Collaboration, Connectivity and Creativity: In Beyond Britten: The Composer and the Community. (Aldeburgh Studies in Music). Boydell & Brewer Limited. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv136c1vj.24

Creative Learning across the Barbican-Guildhall Campus: A new paradigm for engaging with the arts?

Gregory, S., & Renshaw, P. (2013). Creative Learning across the Barbican-Guildhall Campus: A new paradigm for engaging with the arts? Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Engaged Passions, Searches for Quality in Community Contexts

Gregory, S. (2010). Engaged Passions, Searches for Quality in Community Contexts.

Creativity and Conservatoires: the agenda and the issues and The Creative Music Workshop: a contextual study of its origin and practice. In: The reflective conservatoire : studies in music education

Gregory, S. (2005). Creativity and Conservatoires: the agenda and the issues and The Creative Music Workshop: a contextual study of its origin and practice. In: The reflective conservatoire : studies in music education. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Reflecting on conservatoires. Prelude, The developing conservatoire Creativity and conservatoires : the agenda and the issues

Gregory, S., & Odam, G. (Ed.) (2005). Reflecting on conservatoires. Prelude, The developing conservatoire Creativity and conservatoires : the agenda and the issues. Guildhall School of Music and Drama.