Sharon Isbin

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Sharon Isbin (born August 7, 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) began her guitar studies at age 9 in Italy. She was a student of greates techers Andrés Segovia, Oscar Ghiglia and Alirio Díaz. She was the 1st Prize winner of the Toronto Guitar 1975 competition, a winner of the Madrid Queen Sofia, and a winner of the Munich Competition. She's the founder of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard School.

Sharon Isbin performs 60-100 concerts a season, she has appeared as soloist with over 160 orchestras. Apart of US Sharon Isbin has toured Europe annually since she was 17, and has also toured Canada, Japan and the Far East, New Zealand, South America, Mexico and Israel appearing in recital and as soloist with such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Zürich Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish and many more.

As a chamber musician, Sharon Isbin has performed with Nigel Kennedy, Benita Valente, Susanne Mentzer, the Emerson String Quartet and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others. She performed a “Guitar Summit” tour with jazz greats Herb Ellis, Stanley Jordan and Michael Hedges; she made trio recordings with Larry Coryell and Laurindo Almeida, and duo recordings with Carlos Barbosa-Lima. She has also collaborated with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Steve Vai.

Official website: www.sharonisbin.com

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