Portland Performing Arts Festival June 2012 Watch Sharon Isbin in concert on Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s Maine Arts! Presents: Guitarist Sharon Isbin at the Portland Performing Arts Festival in a one hour television program archived online. Watch Video

Enlightenment - The Transcendental Meditation Magazine June 2012 An Interview with Sharon Isbin: The Monet of Classical Guitar “As a musician, TM enhances my mental stamina, memory, concentration, and ability to learn. It puts me in touch with my innermost creative core and enables its expression through music.” Read Article

NPR’s All Things Considered December 27, 2011 The ‘Guitar Passions’ of Sharon Isbin & Steve Vai “Her new album, Guitar Passions, features collaborations between Isbin—who studied with Andres Segovia, among others—and artists with very unclassical careers ...” Read Article & Listen

Minnesota Public Radio January 20, 2012 “She plays like a goddess and frankly, she looks like one too! Sharon joined me today on air to share a few tracks from her latest disc and talk about playing the Rodrigo this weekend.” Listen

The Guitar Show Sharon Isbin Interview #2 December 22, 2011 In our exclusive interview, Isbin takes us behind the scenes of her newest release, Guitar Passions, which features eight guest artists, including guitarists Romero Lubambo, Steve Vai, Stanley Jordan, Steve Morse & Nancy Wilson. Listen

Musos Magazine November 2011 Sharon Isbin “How did a kid from Minneapolis, Minnesota with a passion for rocket science come to create The Juilliard School’s first guitar department, win Grammys, record with the New York Philharmonic, Joan Baez, and most recently a CD with rock and jazz legends Steve Vai, Stanley Jordan, and Nancy Wilson of Heart titled Sharon Isbin & Friends: Guitar Passions?” Read Article (PDF)

Classical Guitar November 2011 Sharon Isbin “Isbin is ahead of the curve with Guitar Passions, perhaps in the running for another Grammy, and once again pushing the envelope to the benefit of us all.” Read Article (PDF)

Guitar Player November 2011 Sharon Isbin “Sharon Isbin isn’t your average internationally renowned, multiple Grammy Award winning, Billboard chart-topping female classical guitarist.” Read Article (PDF)

BBC Radio 4 November 2011 Sharon Isbin “Legendary guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joan Armatrading meets Sharon Isbin, America’s leading Classical guitarist and winner of 2 Grammys“. Listen

WRTI’s Crossover October 2011 Classical Guitarist Sharon Isbin Join Jill Pasternak as she interviews multiple Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin. Her latest CD, Sharon Isbin & Friends: Guitar Passions is highlighted. Listen to Interview

Ariama September 2011 Sharon Isbin, Passionate Guitarist “Sharon Isbin is one of the great guitarists. Her repertoire is vast and her discography enormous. Guitar Passions features some of her favorite music from Spain and Latin America.” Read Article

ABC - Paraguay September 1, 2011 Sharon Isbin y Steve Vai grabaron “La catedral” Grandes de la guitarra interpretan a Barrios “Los guitarristas Sharon Isbin y Steve Vai tocan juntos La catedral de Agustin Barrios, en el nuevo disco de Isbin Guitar Passions.” Read Article (PDF)

San Francisco Classical Voice January 3, 2011 Sharon Isbin: Voyager on Six Strings “I notice that when you play, you sometimes are almost in a trancelike state. It's very beautiful to watch. Does this have anything to do with your practice of Transcendental Meditation?” Read Article (PDF)

Albany Times-Union March 11, 2010 Guitar star Isbin teams with violinist O’Connor “Although widely regarded as the top classical guitar soloist of our time, she keeps teaming up with other artists, often far afield from the traditional realm of so-called concert music.” Read Article (PDF)

The Orange County Register December 6, 2009 Guitarist who played for the Obamas will play in O.C. “She has commissioned ten concertos for her instrument ... by the likes of Tan Dun, John Corigliano, Christopher Rouse and Lukas Foss.” Read Article

BBC Music Magazine November 2009 Sharon Isbin The American guitarist reveals the inspirations behind her latest CD, Journey to the New World “Originally I wanted to honour Joan Baez as she was one of my folk-music heroes, so I asked John Duarte to write the Joan Baez Suite.” Read Article

Guitare Classique October 2009 Sharon Isbin, En mode majeur FRENCH Read Article (PDF)

Guitarist Classic July 2009 Sharon Isbin, La lady aux cordes nylon FRENCH Read Article (PDF)

NPR’s All Things Considered June 4, 2009 Guitarist Sharon Isbin’s American ‘Journey’ “... the renowned classical guitarist, recently sat down with NPR’s Robert Siegel to play songs and talk about her new album, Journey to the New World ...” Read Article & Listen

Classical Guitar Magazine May 2009 Sharon Isbin “The longer I know Sharon Isbin, the more I am amazed by the scope of her career.” Read Article (PDF)

Il Venerdi di Repubblica May 2009 Sharon Isbin, La lady aux cordes nylon ITALIAN Read Article (PDF)

Orlando Sentinel February 2009 Guitar Goddess Grammy winner Sharon Isbin headlines Winter Park’s 74th annual Bach Festival “Guitar gods are still strictly rock theology, but if the term were applied in the classical realm, Sharon Isbin would be fit for deification.” Read Article (PDF)

Boston Globe October 15, 2004 A pioneer in classical guitar, Isbin continues to break ground “She has this voracious musical curiosity that feeds her imagination, and she is charismatic in all the best ways...” Read Article

Fanfare May/June 2004 “Ms. Guitar, Inc.”: A Chat With Sharon Isbin “Isbin has helped to spread the gospel of the classical guitar through concerts, broadcasts, television appearances, and interviews in non-specialist publications such as Elle and People.” Read Article

The Wall Street Journal July 10, 2003 “Classical Guitar? She Wrote the Book “... the classical guitar lingered at the edge of standard concert life—till now. The change is due largely to the American guitarist Sharon Isbin.” Read Article

Schwann Jazz & Classical August 2001 Sharon Isbin Reworks the Repertoire “Isbin’s life with the guitar was international from the beginning. She took up the instrument in Italy at the age of nine ...” Read Article (PDF)

Musicians Friend August 22, 2001 Commissioned Response: Sharon Isbin “Isbin is one of the most adventurous classical guitarists to come along in years.” Read Article

The New York Times Sunday, July 22, 2001 Sharon Isbin Coolly Carries the Torch for the Classical Guitar “In her hands the guitar takes on the precision of a diamond, each note a clear, shining facet that catches, prismlike, a glint of the spectrum.” Read Article

Town & Country June 2001 The Busy Ms. Isbin “Isbin’s CD Dreams of a World not only displaced The 3 Tenors: Paris 1998 from near the top of the classical-music charts ... it won a Grammy award in February—the first won by a classical guitarist in almost thirty years.” Read Article

Associated Press May 30, 2001 Guitarist Isbin Steps Out of Shadows “... while Isbin is among the world’s elite classical players, what really sets her apart is the dogged commissioning of new concerti for guitar and orchestra.” Read Article

NPR’s All Things Considered May 4, 2001 Sharon Isbin “Robert Siegel interviews Sharon Isbin, a sensation in the world of classical guitar. This year, Isbin became the first classical guitarist to win a Grammy award in nearly three decades, for her CD Dreams of a World.” READ & LISTEN

Chicago Tribune May 30, 2000 Sharon Isbin is at the Pinnacle of a Macho Tradition “One of the world’s preeminent virtuosos of the classical guitar, Isbin is the first woman to reach the pinnacle of the solo guitar world.” Read Article

Boston Globe February 14, 1999 In the Tradition: Sharon Isbin’s New and Old Guitar Music “In the 1980s, she embarked on a collaboration with the eminent Bach pianist Rosalyn Tureck that revolutionized the way Bach is interpreted on the guitar ...” Read Article

ELLE Magazine June 1996 Sharon Isbin, unplugged “Isbin’s virtuosity has attracted admirers throughout the music world ...” Read Article