Sean Linfors is an Associate Professor of Music Education at Ithaca College, where he directs ensembles and has taught choral methods, choral conducting, and choral literature. He received his degrees from the University of Richmond and Florida State University, studying with André Thomas, and he taught public school in Florida and Virginia. In 2023 Sean was honored along with the Ithaca College Choir with the American Prize in Choral Performance for larger collegiate programs. He has been the Guest Conductor and Clinician for the East African Choral Festival in Nairobi, Kenya, and he was a semi-finalist for The American Prize in Choral Conducting as director of the Tallahassee Community Chorus.
Recent performances have included Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us , Margaret Bonds’ Credo, and Carol Barnett’s Bluegrass Mass, and in May 2025, he premiered the cantata Stella Maris, Sterna Paradisaea by Sally Lamb McCune. His ensembles have been invited to perform at ACDA national and regional conferences.
Sean is Artistic Director of two community ensembles, the Syracuse Chorale and the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, which together have over one hundred years of choral singing history. They perform a variety of repertoire celebrating choral music new and old. Locally, he has prepared choirs for Opera Ithaca and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra.
Ithaca College's Treble Chorale will perform a set at the 2026 Eastern Regional ACDA Conference featuring the following pieces:
Drei Geistliches Chöre
O bone jesu
Adoramus te
Regina coeli
Johannes Brahms
Les Papillons
GIA
Ernest Chausson arr. Mari Isabel Valverde
Songbird
Sarah Quartel
Oxford University Press
Hear My Prayer
Henry Purcell arr. Sean Linfors
Hear My Prayer, SSSSAAAA
Diptych Resolution
Khyle Wooten
Manuscript
Guadalajara
Lucha Reyes, arr.Raúl Dominguez
La Voz Publishing