The album is a fully plugged-in affair, without a trace of the standard Spanish classics or Bach transcriptions many guitarists thrive on. Instead, Shibe artfully gathers over a millennium's worth of ...

For classical guitarist Sean Shibe, conventions and limitations are made to be broken. As expected, he plays Spanish standard repertoire and intricate Baroque tunes on his nylon-strung guitar as well ...

Moving to Bach’s Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E flat major, Shibe played with a serene poise despite the highly intricate and complex work going on in the fingers, made possible to fully witness by ...

Shibe was the first guitarist ever to be selected for BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists program, to be awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and, in 2018, to receive the Royal Philharmonic ...

Part of its name sounds Dutch, but Quatuor Van Kuijk is decidedly French. So French, in fact, that this string quartet’s members at first mispronounced their own moniker. Cellist Anthony Kondo ...

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The Scottish guitarist defies expectations, ditching his traditional nylon-strung instrument for a Fender Stratocaster to play a startling range... Sean Shibe, a shape-shifting artist, redefines the ...