Sean Shibe in Recital

For our first Young Artist Coffee Concert of the year, we are joined by the dazzling young performer Sean Shibe, the first guitarist ever to be admitted to the BBC Young Generation Artists scheme. A former Royal Overseas League gold medallist, he is renowned for his remarkable technical abilities and deeply expressive playing. For this recital he performs an all-English programme inspired by the virtuoso guitarist Julian Bream, who commissioned much of the 20th century’s key guitar repertoire. The recital starts and ends with John Dowland, England’s greatest lutenist of the Elizabethan era, and traces his influence through the music of William Walton, Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten along the way.