Sharon Isbin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sharon Isbin (2011)

Sharon Isbin (born August 7, 1956 in St. Louis Park ) is an American classical guitarist and founder of the guitar class at the Juilliard School . She is the only female classical guitarist to date to have won two Grammy Awards .

Life

Isbin took guitar lessons from the age of nine and studied at Yale University , where she was tutored by Rosalyn Tureck , among others . Other teachers were Andrés Segovia and Oscar Ghiglia . In 1989 she founded the first guitar class at the Juilliard School of Music , which she has been leading ever since.

Isbin has worked with numerous internationally known artists over the course of her career. So she performed the Blossom Suite composed by Steve Vai together with the composer in Paris (2005), played the world premiere of Christopher Rouses Concert de Gaudi (2000, together with the NDR Symphony Orchestra ) as a solo artist and bowed to the folk guitarist and - singer Joan Baez composed Joan Baez Suite by John Duarte (2003). With the New York Philharmonic , she recorded guitar concerts for the first time in the history of the orchestra (by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Manuel Ponce ) in 2005 . In 2009 she worked with Joan Baez and Mark O'Connor . She also worked with Nigel Kennedy , Denyce Graves , Herb Ellis and Michael Hedges , among others .

Awards

Isbin has received two Grammy Awards , as the only classical guitarist to date , in 2001 (for Dreams of a World in the category "Best Solo Instrument Performance Without Orchestra") and 2010 (for Journey to the New World in the same category).

In addition, the composer Christopher Rouse received a Grammy in 2002 for the Isbin recording Concert de Gaudi for Guitar and Orchestra in the category “Best Contemporary Classical Composition”. Isbin himself was nominated in 2002 for the category “Best Solo Instrument Performance with Orchestra” and in the same year received the ECHO Klassik Award for this recording .

plant

Discography

  • Journey to the New World , Sony, 2009 (with Joan Baez and Mark O'Connor )
  • Guitar Essentials: The World's Greatest Guitar Music , Denon, 2008 (with Alexander-Sergei Ramírez)
  • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Guitar; Ponce: Concierto del sur , Warner, 2005 (with the New York Philharmonic )
  • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez & Latin Romances , EMI / Virgin, 2005 (with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne )
  • Artist Portrait: Sharon Isbin , Warner, 2004
  • Wayfaring Stranger , Erato, 2004 (with Susanne Mentzer )
  • Baroque Favorites for Guitar , Warner, 2003 (with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra )
  • Greatest Hits , EMI / Virgin, 2002
  • JS Bach: Complete Lute Suites , EMI / Virgin, 2002
  • American Landscapes , EMI / Angel, 2002
  • Christopher Rouse: Concert de Gaudi, Tan Dun: Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra (Yi2) , Teldec, 2001 (with the Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra)
  • Dreams of a World: Folk-inspired Music for Guitar , Teldec, 1999
  • Journey to the Amazon , Teldec, 1997 (with Paul Winter and Gaudêncio Thiago de Mello )
  • 3 Guitars 3 , Intersound, 1995 (with Laurindo Almeida and Larry Coryell )
  • Nightshade Rounds , EMI / Virgin, 1994
  • Road to the Sun / Estrada do Sol , EMI / Virgin, 1992
  • Love Songs & Lullabies , EMI / Virgin, 1991 (with Benita Valente, Thomas Allen and Gaudencio Thiago de Mello)
  • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez , EMI / Virgin (with the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne)
  • Aaron Jay Kernis : Double Concerto for Violin & Guitar , Argo / Decca (with Cho-Liang Lin and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra)
  • Rhapsody in Blue / West Side Story , Concord (with Carlos Barbosa-Lima )
  • Brazil, with Love , Concord (with Carlos Barbosa-Lima)

Sheet music editions

  • John Duarte: Appalachian Dreams (Ed.Schirmer)
  • JS Bach: The Lute Music , edited by R. Tureck, fingering by S. Isbin (Ed. Schirmer)

Textbook

  • Classical Guitar Answer Book , String Letter Books, San Anselmo 1999, ISBN 1-890490-08-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, great hours. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1 , p. 209.
personal data
SURNAME Isbin, Sharon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis Park , Minnesota , United States