Composer~Teacher~Guitarist

   BORN Sean Damon Rohde in 1968, I began my
music studies at twelve. Like so many others, I
learned my favorite rock songs by ear. But almost
immediately I realized an intense desire to create. 
I was no longer interested in simply playing the
music of others; from then on I have played
only my own music.
   My creation and performance of pieces in
the rock idiom continued until I was eighteen,
when I had the greatest epiphany of my life.
My father having given me a recording of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and I having
grown tired of the constraints of rock music,
led me to discover the path through the rest
of my days.
   In 1986, using my name Sean Damon, I
began my serious music career. In fact, I have
learned music mostly by my own efforts; I
have had very little formal training. Since
beginning my studies, I have also developed
a voracious appetite for high culture in all
forms: the fine arts, history, and science.
   Above all, though, I hold Mother Nature
most dear. In her embrace I find my classroom,
my playground, and my church. From her I
have learned to appreciate the beautiful
subtleties of existence. With her I have
experienced some of my greatest pleasures.
By her I find the spiritual reassurance to continue
through hardship and maintain a productive life.
   Amid ugliness of the human world, I find paradise
in my thoughts. Whatever becomes of humanity, I shall
continue to do my part to promote beauty.
   Artists keep the sanity of humankind.