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Sharon Isbin
@sharonisbin.bsky.social
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Multiple GRAMMY Award-Winning guitarist. Founding Director guitar departments at The Juilliard School & Aspen Music Festival. Winner 2020 Musical America Instrumentalist of the Year, 2023 Guitar Foundation of America Hall of Fame. Visit www.sharonisbin.com
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Honored 1hr of my music featured this wk on nationally syndicated @npr.org show airing 250+ stations for 400,000+ listeners! Listen FREE anytime @prx.org:
exchange.prx.org/pieces/594242

Photos: @recordingacademy.bsky.social #GRAMMYs @stevevai.bsky.social @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social #guitar #music
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Congratulations Elaine Martone for your Producer of the Year, Classical GRAMMY nomination today!!! I'm honored our album "Romántico" is part of this amazing journey!
❤️🎶❤️
- @enricolopezyanez.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Thank you #Denver for the joy of performing for your cheering, standing ovation packed house w/ the glorious Calidore String Quartet - we had a great time!! And magical hike through exotic formations at Roxborough!

#guitar #classicalguitar #stringquartet #chambermusic #acousticguitar #acousticmusic
October 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Excited to perform Monday Oct 13, 7.30pm #Denver #Colorado, Newman Center, Gates Hall with the wonderful Calidore String Quartet! Info & tickets: friendsofchambermusic.com/event/calido...

-- @uofdenver.bsky.social #guitar #stringquartet #classicalguitar #acousticguitar #acousticmusic
October 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It's a joy to share ROMÁNTICO, my album of Latin dance-inspired world premieres for #guitar! I would be honored if you would consider it in the categories below!

Hear album, watch video, see program notes:
linktr.ee/SharonIsbin_...

Thanks for your friendship,
Sharon

@recordingacademy.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Join me and the wonderful @PacificaQuartet Sunday October 5 at 3pm in New York - info & tickets: yonkerstimes.com/grammy-winne...
September 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Sharing the world premiere video of my solo #guitar arrangement and performance of Naomi Shemer's "Jerusalem of Gold". ♥🎶♥
September 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Joy performing at Krannert Center #illinois w/ my Strings for Peace w/ India's foremost sarod virtuosi Amjad Ali Khan! We reveled in the huge crowd, standing ovations & joyous music last week! "Isbin’s classical guitar w/ Khan’s Indian ragas was an incredible performance, truly unforgettable.”
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Info & Tickets:
krannertcenter.com/events/strin...
September 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Join me and Strings for Peace w/ the foremost #sarod virtuosi of #India Amjad Ali Khan & his sons Sept 6 at the Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall, 2pm in #Champaign #Illinois! Info & tickets:
krannertcenter.com/events/strin...

#IndianClassicalMusic #guitar #tabla #acousticguitar
September 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Joyous 5000+ crowd for Miami Concerto! Raves fr Oregon ArtsWatch:
"Rousing applause and standing ovation...Filled with catchy tunes that evoke Miami's musical culture...Punchy riffs from Isbin led to a robust ending. Music perfectly matched the lovely summer evening." On my LeFrak: ROMÁNTICO album!
September 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Standing 0 at Aspen Music Festival for my LeFrak Concerto conducted by Elizabeth Schulze! @aspentimes.bsky.social:"Among the season highlights are some big winners...Isbin's exquisitely detailed performances...shading & caressing.A heartfelt slow mov't 'Romántico' lovely enough to stand on its own."
August 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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For Your Consideration/Para Su Consideración
LATIN GRAMMYS®:
BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM
Hear album:
linktr.ee/SharonIsbin_...

"Exquisite recording of LeFrak's masterful works. Isbin's playing is exhilarating, extroverted and virtuosic." World Music Report

"Isbin's performance is stunning" WQED-FM
July 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Excited to perform LeFrak's dazzling Miami Concerto w/ VSO USA Aug 3, 6pm Vancouver WA Festival (near #PortlandOR):
vancouversymphony.org/vamf-2025/
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVac...
Hear on my new album ROMÁNTICO, SiriusXM's Album of the Week & #2 Amazon:
linktr.ee/SharonIsbin_...
July 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Approaching gorgeous #Aspen #Colorado in the #RockyMountains! Can't wait to perform August 13 at the Aspen Music Festival & teach brilliant students in my 4wk #classicalguitar program! Concert details: www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calen...

#guitar #acousticguitar #latinmusic
July 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Last week @warnerclassics.bsky.social released "Sharon Isbin: Heartstrings" w/ 61 tracks & nearly 9 million Spotify streams! #guitar #classicalguitar #acousticguitar
July 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Enjoy FREE my interview & music: exchange.prx.org/pieces/572992
featuring ROMANTICO world premiere recording of Latin dance-inspired #guitar music and album w/PacificaQuartet! ❤️🎶💕

ROMÁNTICO on Amazon:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5QX2QTB/

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVac...
July 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Excited to share on SiriusXM this week joyous music from my new album ROMANTICO now streaming on all major platforms! ♥️🎶💞
June 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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WOW, #CentralParkNY & #RiversideParkNY are magnificently in bloom! Sharing my photos of colorful tulips, double-crested cormorants eyeing turtles & goose, cherry blossoms, wisteria + more! #nyc #nature
May 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Honored to perform w/ sarod masters Amjad Ali Khan, his sons Amaan & Ayaan Ali Bangash & tabla whiz Amit Kavthekar as STRINGS FOR PEACE for @npr.org #TinyDesk! Our show airs April 18! ♥🎶😎 #nprmusic
April 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Honored the magnificent late #RobertaFlack presented me w/ a 2nd Best Instrumental Soloist #GRAMMYs Award in 2010 for my album JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD! A joy that #JoanBaez & #MarkOconnor joined me in several tracks. Video from that magical day!

#guitar #classicalguitar #acousticguitar
March 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Listen today, Friday & Sunday @SIRIUSXM (times ⬇️) or anytime on SiriusXM app www.siriusxm.com/player
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Excited to perform Saturday Feb 22 Herbst Theatre 7:30pm #SanFrancisco Performances! Tickets: secure.sfperformances.org/3741/3742
My FREE #guitar class Fri Feb 21, 7:30pm San Francisco Conservatory:
sfcm.edu/experience/p...

#acousticguitar #classicalguitar #sarod #indianclassicalmusic #joy
February 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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A joy to perform with my dear friends Pacifica Quartet this week at our sold-out #AmeliaIsland #Florida concert! Sharing maritime forest and #ocean pics where jogging, watching aquatic life and relaxing on the #beach was sublime!
#guitarist life
January 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Xcited to perform w/ my friends Pacifica Quartet Jan 19 #Jacksonville #Florida area! Tix: aicmf.org/event/sharon... Free #guitar master class Jan18 1pm: aicmf.org/event/isbin_... More: fernandinaobserver.org/stories/cham... Honored for my 54th magazine cover! See all: sharonisbin.com/presscovers....
January 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM