Indian Summer Festival is pleased to be bringing Sharon Isbin to Vancouver on July 12, for a Wold Premiere of Strings for Peace with Amjad Ali Khan and his sons.

Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, three-time Grammy Award winner Jewish Sharon Isbin has been hailed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time.” She has been a recipient of Guitar Player magazine’s Best Classical Guitarist award and the first guitarist ever to win the Munich Competition. She directs the guitar departments at the Aspen Music Festival and The Juilliard School, which she created in 1989. She has given sold-out performances in many of the world’s finest halls, including New York’s Carnegie and Geffen Halls, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, London’s Barbican and Wigmore Halls, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.

Ms. Isbin has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, A Prairie Home Companion, CBS Sunday Morning, Showtime’s The L Word, Scorsese’s Oscar-winning The Departed, at Ground Zero for the first internationally televised 9/11 memorial, the White House by invitation of President Obama, and as the only classical artist in the 2010 GRAMMY Awards. Profiled in periodicals from People to Elle, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, she has appeared on the cover of over 45 magazines.