Sean Shibe

Join us for a 50-minute lunchtime performance by Sean Shibe - “one of the foremost guitarists” of his generation.

arr. Sean Shibe – Scottish Lute Manuscripts
Johann Sebastian Bach – Lute Suite in C minor, BWV997
Federico Mompou – Cuna and Corral from Suite Compostelana
Isaac Albeniz – Asturias

In 2018 Sean Shibe won the Young Artist Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society following a hugely successful debut album release on Delphian Records, which also won him a nomination in the BBC Music Magazine ‘Instrumental Award’ category.

Born in Edinburgh in 1992 of English and Japanese heritage, he studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and with Paolo Pegoraro in Italy.

At the age of 20 he became the first guitarist to be selected for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, and the only solo guitarist to be awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. He was a YCAT artist between 2015 and 2017.

He has performed at internationally renowned venues including Aldeburgh Festival, Bath International Festival, Heidelberger-Frühling and the Musashino Hall in Tokyo. He returned to the Marlboro Summer Music Festival on the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida, and has extensively toured in China.

Location: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall