Sharon Isbin

Sharon Isbin生于1956年8月7號，是美國的吉他手，歌手。Sharon Isbin從9歲起開始學習吉他,1979年，Sharon Isbin在耶魯大學獲得了音樂碩士學位，從1974年Sharon Isbin進行了她的首次歐洲巡回起，全世界的吉他愛好者和評論家就開始注意這位當時年僅17歲的吉他演奏家了。1975年，Sharon Isbin在加拿大多倫多舉行的Guitar'75國際大賽上獲得了第一名。次年，她又摘取了慕尼黑國際大賽的吉他冠軍。作為在馬德里舉行的1979年索非亞王后國際大賽的冠軍，Sharon Isbin與西班牙國家廣播交響樂團合作演出了著名的《阿蘭胡埃斯吉他協(xié)奏曲》。Sharon Isbin是目前世界上最著名的吉他演奏家之一，她居住在美國紐約，從1989年起，開始擔任紐約 Juillard 音樂學校首席吉他教授職務。 她贏得2002年和以及德國著名的古典回聲獎“最佳演唱錄音”。她還贏得了2005年拉丁格萊美提名為“最佳古典唱片”和2006年GLAAD媒體獎提名為“杰出音樂藝術(shù)家”，她與小提琴家林昭亮和圣保羅室內(nèi)樂團獲得了2000年格萊美獎的提名
by Zoran Minderovic
Described by Boston Globe's Michael Manning as a musician who plays "beyond virtuosity," guitarist Sharon Isbin has been a consistent challenge for critics, who struggle to find the right superlative that would do justice to her exquisite playing. "In her hands," wrote Anne Midgette in The New York Times, the guitar takes on the precision of a diamond, each note a clear, shining facet that catches, prismlike, a glimpse of the spectrum." In essence, a performance by Isbin is like a painting by Vermeer: a formally impeccable and inexhaustible work of art. A Renaissance woman of the guitar, Isbin performs worldwide -- at famous venues, commissions new works from distinguished American composers (more than any other guitarist) for her instruments, collaborates with a wide variety of musicians, and indefatigably searches for new music to play. As a child, Isbin wanted to be scientist, like her father. However, she started guitar lessons at the age of nine (the family was living in Italy at that time) and found 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 project eventually resulted in a critically acclaimed disc. In 1989, Isbin founded the guitar department at the Juilliard School of Music and became that institution's first professor of guitar. Isbin's recordings have consistently been assessed as ground-breaking musical events. In 1995, her disc, the first ever, of American guitar concert was presented to Russian cosmonaut during a rendez-vous between the space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian spaceship Mir. Journey to the Amazon, performed with Brazilian percussionist Thiago de Mello and saxophonist 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 another Grammy, for an extraordinary performance of concerti by Christoher Rouse and Tan Dun. The concerti featured in this world premiere disc were dedicated to Isbin.Spanning various styles, genres, and periods Isbin's other recordings include Aaron Jay Kernis' Double Concerto (with violinist Cho-Liang Lin), Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjues, and Sharon Isbin plays Baroque Favorites for Guitar. The last-named album features a truly astounding performance of a transcription of Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor.