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Sharon Isbin

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 ever to receive the coveted honor in their 59-year award history. She was inducted into the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America Hall of Fame and received their Artistic Achievement Award. Hailed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time”, she is the winner of Guitar Player magazine’s Best Classical Guitarist award, Germany’s Echo Klassik, Concert Artists Guild’s Virtuoso Award, the Toronto and Madrid Queen Sofia competitions, and the first guitarist to win the Munich ARD Competition

Album

Live in Aspen

Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Capricho Arabe; Sacred Evening - Alap Yaman; Sacred Evening - Raga Yaman; By The Moon - Alap Behag; By The Moon - Raga Behag; Raga Ganesh Kalyan; Raga Bahar; Raga Bhatyali; Romancing Earth - Alap Pilu; Romancing Earth - Raga Pilu.

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Article: Album Review

Sharon Isbin: Live in Aspen

Read "Live in Aspen" reviewed by Scott Gudell


Ground Zero for guitarist Sharon Isbin has long been anchored in the world of western classical music. Her training was extensive and, beginning in the mid-1970s, she began winning several prestigious awards. Although she began releasing albums in the late 1970s, it took until just before the turn of the century--1999--before she secured her first Grammy ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two From Sharon Isbin on Zoho Music

Read "Two From Sharon Isbin on Zoho Music" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Sharon Isbin is well established as one of the world's great classical guitarists. These two new releases show the range of her talents as she explores various other genres such as jazz and Indian classical music. Sharon Isbin Affinity Zoho Music 2020 The jazz element figures into ...

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Article: Interview

Dexter Payne: All Things, All Beings

Read "Dexter Payne: All Things, All Beings" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Clarinet, harmonica and saxophonist, composer and bandleader and musical globetrotter Dexter Payne is the type of musician who is most often categorized as “difficult to categorize." Profoundly influenced by physical and spiritual journeys through the cultures of America, the Middle East, Africa and Brazil, Payne's recorded output checks off every box from Mississippi delta blues to ...


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