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According to her website, Isbin is also the winner of ''Guitar Player'' magazine's "Best Classical Guitarist" award and the Madrid Queen Sofia and Toronto Competitions, and was the first guitarist ever to win the Munich Competition. Although her publicity has stated for years that she won the Madrid Queen Sofia Competition, she actually placed second behind Spaniard, Diego Blanco. She also claims to have won the Munich Competition, however, the year she competed, no first prize was given. She did win the Toronto Competition in 1975 in a very controversial decision ahead of Manuel Barrueco. Isbin has commissioned more Concerti than any other guitarist. Isbin's catalogue of over 20 recordings ranges from Baroque, Spanish/Latin and 20th century to crossover and Jazz-fusion . In 1995, her disc was the first ever American guitar concert presented to a Russian cosmonaut during a rendezvous between the space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian spaceship Mir. Also that year, Isbin came out as Lesbian in '' Out ''. In 2004, she appeared as herself in an episode of '' The L-Word ''; in the storyline of the episode, she performed at The Planet and expressed an interest in Bette Porter after the latter's rebound. According to '' Boston Magazine '', Sharon Isbin is the pre-eminent guitarist of our time. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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