Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, multiple Grammy Award-winner Sharon Isbin was named Musical America Worldwide’s 2020 Instrumentalist of the Year, the first guitarist to receive the coveted honor in its 59-year history. She was inducted into the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America Hall of Fame and received its Artistic Achievement Award. Sharon has appeared as a soloist with over 200 orchestras and given sold-out performances across 40 countries. She has served as Artistic Director and soloist at festivals she created for Carnegie Hall, the Ordway Music Theatre (St Paul), New York’s 92NY, and the national radio series Guitarjam. The one-hour documentary, Sharon Isbin: Troubadour, has been seen by millions on 200+ PBS stations.
Born in Minneapolis, Sharon began her guitar studies at age nine in Italy, and later studied with Andrès Segovia, Oscar Ghiglia, Alirio Diaz, Jeffrey Van and for ten years with noted Bach scholar and keyboardist Rosalyn Tureck with whom she collaborated on landmark editions/recordings of the Bach lute suites for guitar. She is Director of Guitar departments at the Aspen Music Festival and Juilliard, the first and only guitar instructor in the school’s 100-year history and has premiered around 100 works written for her by world-renowned composers.
September 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Bernstein Remix! A Benefit for Artful Learning