Guitarist Sharon Isbin: From the movies to Joan Baez

Aspen Public Radio | By Chris Mohr

Published August 19, 2026 at 1:31 PM MDT

Guitarist Sharon Isbin inspects a hitchhiker at a Manhattan restaurant in June 2025.

Guitarist Sharon Isbin has commissioned music from several great American composers, performed on film scores, and even recorded with Joan Baez. Her concert this Wednesday features several examples of these performances, and she chats with APR's Chris Mohr about them.

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Classical music reporter Chris Mohr has loved classical music since he was twelve. “And I owe it all to radio,” Chris explains. “I grew up in a farm town east of Cleveland. One day I turned on the local classical radio station. They were playing Vivaldi, and it was like the gates of heaven opened up to me!" Chris is also a composer, and is working on a 53-note-to-the-octave oratorio, "Melodies of the Shoreless Sea." This is his 11th summer working for Aspen Public Radio.

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