New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Sharon Isbin Official Website) On Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 8PM, multiple GRAMMY Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin returns to New York's 92nd St Y for a solo recital at Kaufmann Concert Hall. The concert celebrates the 35th anniversary of her New York Debut (at Alice Tully Hall in 1979), the 25th anniversary of The Juilliard School guitar department (which Sharon Isbin created in 1989, the first in the institution's 100-year history), and honors the 100th birthday on this date of her mentor Rosalyn Tureck, as well as the centenary of
Benjamin Britten.
See her BroadwayWorld interview: https://sharonisbin.com/broadwayworld.html
Ms. Isbin's program for this event includes J.S. Bach's Suite BWV997 from the landmark performance editions she created in collaboration with Rosalyn Tureck, published by G. Schirmer and which she recorded for EMI (JS Bach: Complete Lute Suites). Ms. Isbin also performs Britten's Nocturnal, his only solo work for guitar, the late Bruce MacCombie's Nightshade Rounds written for Sharon Isbin (MacCombie's 70th anniversary), and music by Agustin Barrios Mangoré, Isaac Albeniz and Andrew York.
18-CITY GUITAR PASSIONS TOUR FEBRUARY 2014
On February 9, 2014, Ms. Isbin returns to New York City to perform at the Lehman Center as part of her 18-city tour with jazz guitarists Stanley Jordan and
Romero Lubambo featuring music from her recent bestselling CD Sharon Isbin & Friends: Guitar Passions (Sony). For a complete list of the 2014 tour and other upcoming dates this season, including Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Detroit, Phoenix, Dallas, Philadelphia, see:
https://www.sharonisbin.com/tour.html
DOCUMENTARY FILM & TAN DUN PREMIERES
Last month Sharon Isbin performed the Belgium premiere of Tan Dun's guitar concerto written for her with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege; a new one-hour documentary on her, Sharon Isbin: Troubadour produced by Susan Dangel, received an acclaimed screening in Brussels. USA screening dates to follow in 2014, including New York's Bruno Walter Auditorium on April 10. See documentary trailer/info:
https://www.kcb.be/agenda/dvd-presentation-sharon-isbin
HANGING W/ SLOTHS IN COSTA RICA
Following performances with the
National Symphony in Costa Rica in October, Sharon Isbin visited the Sloth Sanctuary, featured this month on the Discovery Channel's new series Meet the Sloths! See photo of Sharon hanging with the sloths:
https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151719081516856
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