Grammy-Award winner Sharon Isbin has been hailed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time” and is also the winner of Guitar Player magazine’s “Best Classical Guitarist” award. She performed a “Guitar Summit” tour with jazz greats Herb Ellis, Stanley Jordan, and Michael Hedges. She has also collaborated with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Steve Vai, and shared the stage with luminaries from Aretha Franklin to Muhammad Ali. Her eight best-selling titles for EMI/Virgin Classics include concertos by Joaquín Rodrigo, which the composer praised as “magnificent.”

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PROGRAM NOTES

Respighi – Trittico botticelliano    . . . music and art meet in times past

Rodrigo – Fantasia para un gentilhombre for guitar and orchestra       

                                                                                                                  . . . a tribute to courtly music

Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian”  . . . Ukrainian melodies evoke nostalgia