Sean Thompson

Sean has been playing music for more than 13 years. Originally self-taught for a few years, he later began lessons with his local teacher while growing up in the mountains outside Chico, honing his own personal style of fingerstyle acoustic guitar.

Since picking up guitar, Sean furthered his hunger for knowledge in music, and has since studied musical composition at San Francisco State University, writing music for a variety of ensembles.

As an instructor, Sean has much experience, not only in guitar and composition/theory, but in piano, trumpet, trombone, drums, and bass, and has performed in a variety of styles and situations. With all of this experience, Sean has learned that teaching kids their instrument is only the first step.

Sean holds to the belief that each student should not only develop a familiarity with their instrument but be able to apply that familiarity to any situation. Ear training skills and theory are paired with a philosophy that one must always have their ears and mind open to the musical possibilities.

He currently plays lead guitar in The Silhouette Era, as well as a singer in The Holloways, an acapella vocal jazz group