Sean Godden was born in London, in 2005. His family moved to Macau, China, when he was under a year old. He started studying the piano at the age of six.
In 2024, Sean won the jury’s Special Prize for Excellence in the Concours Ile-de-France Piano Competition in Paris as well as securing First Prize at the Watford Festival Piano Competition in 2025.
Sean was also awarded First Prize in the EPTA UK National Piano Competition in 2025, in addition to winning First Prize at the RNCM’s annual Mark Ray Piano Recital Prize and the RNCM Marjorie Clementi Memorial Award in 2025.
Sean was featured in the magazine Piano Professional in 2025 and is also scheduled to play Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with the Shrewsbury Sinfonia in April 2026 conducted by Martin Cook at Shrewsbury Abbey.
In September 2025, Sean began his third year undergraduate studies with Graham Scott at the Royal Northern College of Music.
He will be making his debut as a new artist for the Keyboard Charitable Trust at London’s Steinway Hall in February 2026.
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the Keyboard Trust identifies today’s most promising young keyboard talent and enables them to perform in many of the most important music centres in Europe and the Americas.
