Sean Shibe, Guitar

Rising Stars

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Sean Shibe
Sean Shibe © Kaupa Kikkas

The guitar as kaleidoscope

Once again in January 2024, the Rising Stars festival brings exciting young artists to the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall for one whole week. The festival gets underway with the Edinburgh guitarist Sean Shibe. According to BBC Music Magazine, the Scottish artist’s debut album was »not just great guitar playing, but the best we’ve ever heard«.

With confident virtuosity, Sean Shibe feels equally at home playing the classical and the electric guitar, and that in a broad range of genres. For this concert, he has selected a programme that extends from the Middle Ages to the present day. He thereby presents a kaleidoscope of what’s possible on the guitar: from the ancient to the modern, the intellectual to the emotional, the virtuosically bombastic to the delicately evanescent.

Performers

Sean Shibe guitar, electric guitar

Programme

Sofia Gubaidulina
Serenade

Agustín Barrios Mangoré
La catedral in B minor

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998

Thomas Adès
Forgotten Dances / commissioned by Barbican Centre and the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO)

– Interval –

Hildegard von Bingen
O choruscans lux stellarum

Olivier Messiaen
O sacrum convivium

Steve Reich
Electric Counterpoint

Julius Eastman
Buddha

Encore:

Federico Mompou
Canción 6

Meet the Artist

with Sean Shibe and François Kremer

18:30 / Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal

Estimated end time

21:10

Subscription

Rising Stars

Series

Young Artists

Promoter: HamburgMusik

Nominated by Barbican Centre London
In cooperation with ECHO – European Concert Hall Organisation
With the support of M.M.Warburg & CO

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During your visit

The Music of Tomorrow

Artist talks, rehearsal and concert visits for school pupils

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Elbphilharmonie Plaza

A public viewing platform on the 8th floor of the Elbphilharmonie

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Food and Drink

Before the concert and in the interval

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