SHARON ISBIN’S GUITAR AND SALVATORE ACCARDO’S VIOLIN

two long-awaited concerts, the first at the Sperimentale and the second at Le Muse in a quartet with Giuranna, Filippini and Petracchi

Young, beautiful, undeniably charming, Sharon Isbin is one of the best contemporary guitarists and is scheduled to perform live at the Teatro Sperimentale on 6^th December. A few weeks later (20^th December), as part of the same season organised by the Amici della Musica, Le Muse theatre will host an exceptional string quartet, comprising Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Rocco Filippini and Franco Petracchi beside five young talented musicians yet to be discovered...

Thanks to her exquisite technique, elegant lyricism and extreme versatility, Sharon Isbin will once more enchant her audience with a programme that will be particularly rich in surprises, including the first European performance of Seven Desires for Guitar composed especially for her by Tan Dun. An award-winner in the most prestigious international competitions, and creator of the guitar department at the Juilliard School, Sharon Isbin began her guitar studies here in Italy, and went on with Andrès Segovia and Oscar Ghiglia. She has played as a soloist with more than 140 orchestras the world over, enlarging her guitar repertoire with some of last century’s best works, commissioning and playing in the first ever performed concertos, compositions for guitar and chamber music. Many composers have written for her, from Tower to Diamond, from Eorem to Brouwer and Kernis. American Landscapes, the first recording of guitar concertos by American composers (Corigliano, Foss and Schwantner), was taken up into space by the astronauts of the shuttle Atlantis and was given to the Russian cosmonauts as a gift during the encounter on the space station Mir. Numerous recordings, from Baroque to the Spanish/South-American repertoire, to contemporary compositions and even jazz-fusion, reflect her unique versatility (Find out more about Sharon Isbin on the following website: www.sharonisbin.com

“For our début at Le Muse, - state the leaders of the Amici della Musica regarding the programme scheduled for 20^th December, - we have chosen a concert-event, a great music celebration for our town: first-rate maestros, with artists with a sure future will put together a performance where the most impertinent and unconventional Mozart of Musikalischer Spass, and the better known, more elegant Mozart of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik along with Tchaikovsky’s Russian nostalgia of Souvenir de Florence, a refined recollection of an Italian holiday, will merge beautifully”.

The maestros of the Christmas Concert are obviously Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Rocco Filippini and Franco Petracchi for a formidable quartet supported by the young Laura Gorna (violin), Anna Serova (viola), Riccardo Agosti (violoncello), Luciano Giuliani and Agostino Accardi (horn). The evening has all the ingredients for indelibly remaining in the audience’s memory: it features the brightest stars of each instrument, the programme has the advantage of being both beautiful and fun and the event will take place in one of the most sparkling weeks of the year.