SEAN MAYES (Music Supervisor) enjoys a varied career internationally as a conductor, music supervisor, orchestrator & composer between Broadway, theatre, opera, classical & Pops worlds.
Mayes is Artistic Director & Founder of POPS OF COLOR, the new resident Pops orchestra of The Town Hall in New York City, composed entirely of musicians of color & focusing exclusively in repertoire artists of color have contributed to popular music. Additionally, Mayes is Music Supervisor & Co-Orchestrator of ALI: The Musical, based on Muhammad Ali, composed by conductor Teddy Abrams & rap icon Q-Tip. His new opera, Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White, made its World Premiere with the Canadian Opera Company in June 2024. Select credits include The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration (Conductor & Orchestrator; Chicago Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony); Morgan Freeman Symphonic Blues Experience (Conductor; Louisville Orchestra); Black Broadway (Conductor; PBS National Broadcast); RENT: In Concert (Music Supervisor; National Symphony, Kennedy Center); MJ (Assistant Conductor; Broadway); HADESTOWN (Associate Conductor; Broadway); An Evening With André De Shields (Music Director & Orchestrator; Baltimore Symphony); MANDELA (Conductor; Young Vic, London); The Color Purple (Music Director; Canadian Premiere). Author of three books: Reframing the Musical; An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre & Conversations in Color: Exploring North American Musical Theatre. Forever for Lori. @maestromayes.