Artist: Sharon Isbin
Genre(s):
Vocal
Discography:
Dreams of a World
Year: 1999
Tracks: 20
Described by Boston Globe's Michael Manning as a musician wHO plays "beyond virtuosity," guitarist Sharon Isbin has been a coherent challenge for critics, world Health Organization struggle to detect the right meridian that would do justice to her exquisite playacting. "In her hands," wrote Anne Midgette in The New York Times, the guitar takes on the precision of a diamond, each note a clear, lustrous facet that catches, prismlike, a glimpse of the spectrum." In burden, a performance by Isbin is like a picture by Vermeer: a formally impeccable and inexhaustible influence of artistic creation. A Renaissance woman of the guitar, Isbin performs world-wide -- at notable venues, commissions new works from imposing American composers (more than whatsoever other guitarist) for her instruments, collaborates with a spacious assortment of musicians, and tirelessly searches for new music to wager. As a kid, Isbin precious to be scientist, like her founder. However, she started guitar lessons at the old age of iX (the syndicate was living in Italy at that time) and base her vocation. Her teachers included Andres Segovia and harpsichordist Rosalyn Tureck. With Tureck, Isbin worked on the first performance edition, for guitar, of J. S. Bach's Lute Suites. This cast eventually resulted in a critically acclaimed magnetic disk. In 1989, Isbin founded the guitar department at the Juilliard School of Music and became that institution's first prof of guitar. Isbin's recordings stimulate consistently been assessed as groundbreaking musical events. In 1995, her disc, the start ever, of American guitar concert was presented to Russian spaceman during a rendezvous between the distance shuttle Atlantis and the Russian spaceship Mir. Journey to the Amazon, performed with Brazilian percussionist Thiago de Mello and saxist Paul Winter, earned Isbin a Grammy nomination in 1999. She received a Grammy in 2001, for her Dreams of a World: Folk-inspired Music for Guitar. Significantly, this was a first classical guitar Grammy in 28 years. In 2002, Isbin got some other Grammy, for an extraordinary performance of concerti by Christoher Rouse and Tan Dun. The concerti featured in this reality premier magnetic disk were consecrate to Isbin.Spanning several styles, genres, and periods Isbin's other recordings include Aaron Jay Kernis' Double Concerto (with fiddler Cho-Liang Lin), Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjues, and Sharon Isbin plays Baroque Favorites for Guitar. The last-named album features a truly dumfounding performance of a transcription of Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor.
