His playing has been hailed as groundbreaking and his performances have been characterized as an experience that goes beyond the confines of the concert. Multi-award winning guitarist Sean Sibe from Scotland represents a new generation of performers drawn to transcendence and experiment with the hybrid nature of a music without limitations.

In his multi-dimensional program, Siebe bridges the medieval mysticism of Hildegard von Bingen with the minimalist motifs of Steve Reich, and the antipointal perfection of Bach with the eclecticism of Thomas Eides, who composed especially for the young virtuoso and his Rising tour Star, his first solo work for a non-keyboard instrument. Sean takes to the Megaro stage with two guitars: the tonal richness of the acoustic guitar and the evocative power of the electric interact in such a way that one reinforces the other in a delightful sonic symbiosis with the only limit being the imagination.

PROGRAM:
Sofia Gubaidulina: Serenade for guitar
Agustín Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV 998
Thomas Adès: Forgotten Dances (commissioned)
Hildegard von Bingen: O choruscans lux Stellarum
Olivier Messiaen: The Sacrum Convivium!
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Julius Eastman: Buddha

guitar (acoustic & electric)
Sean Shibe

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