Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Announces Online Master Class with Grammy-winning Guitarist Sharon Isbin
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts (WIPA) Performing Arts School presents
A FREE GUITAR MASTER CLASS
GRAMMY Award Winner and 2020 Musical America Worldwide Instrumentalist of the Year Sharon Isbin will share her talents with Performing Arts School students online. Audience members are invited to listen and learn from the acclaimed guitarist.
Said Artistic Director Helen H. Cha-Pyo, “Our students at Wharton Arts are
incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to learn from Sharon Isbin. She is
truly a trailblazer in the world of guitar and an inspirational role model for
musicians everywhere.”
Acclaimed
for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, multiple GRAMMY
Award winner Sharon Isbin was named the 2020 Musical America Worldwide
Instrumentalist of the Year, the first guitarist ever to receive the coveted
honor in its 59 year award history. Hailed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our
time,” she is the winner of Guitar Player magazine’s Best
Classical Guitarist award, Germany’s Echo Klassik, Concert Artists Guild’s
Virtuoso Award, and the Toronto and Madrid Queen Sofia competitions, and was
the first guitarist ever to win the Munich ARD Competition. Isbin has appeared
as soloist with over 200 orchestras and has given sold-out performances in many
of the world’s finest halls, including New York’s Carnegie and Geffen Halls,
Boston’s Symphony Hall, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel
Center, London’s Barbican and Wigmore Halls, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Paris’
Châtelet, Vienna’s Musikverein, Munich’s Herkulessaal, and Madrid’s Teatro
Real. She has served as Artistic Director and soloist of festivals she created
for Carnegie Hall and the Ordway Music Theatre (St. Paul), New York’s 92Y, and
the national radio series Guitarjam. Read more at www.sharonisbin.com.
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts’ mission is to
provide the highest quality performing arts education to a wide range of
students in a supportive and inclusive environment, where striving for personal
excellence inspires and connects those we teach to the communities we serve.
Wharton is New Jersey’s largest independent non-profit community performing
arts education center serving over 1,200 students through a range of classes
and ensembles including the 15 ensembles of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, which
serve 500 students in grades 3 – 12 by audition. Beginning with Out of the Box
Music and Pathways classes for young children, Wharton offers private lessons,
group classes, and ensembles for all ages and all abilities at the Performing
Arts School. With the belief in the positive and unifying influence of
music and the performing arts and that arts education should be accessible to
all people regardless of their ability to pay, Wharton teaches all instruments
and voice and has a robust musical theater program. Based in Paterson, New
Jersey, the Paterson Music Project is an El Sistema-inspired program of
the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts that uses music as a vehicle for
social change by empowering and inspiring children through the community
experience of ensemble learning and playing.
Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts is located in Berkeley Heights, New
Providence and Paterson, NJ and reaches students from 10 counties. All of
Wharton’s extraordinary faculty members and conductors hold degrees in their
teaching specialty and have been vetted and trained to enable our students to
achieve their personal best.