Description

San Francisco guitarist Sharon Wayne has delighted audiences throughout the United States and Japan. A highly accomplished young artist, Sharon Wayne was the First Prize winner of the 1991 American String Teachers’ Association Solo Guitar Competition in California. Lauded as “spectacular and possessing superbly executed style” (Charleston, Post and Courier), Ms. Wayne’s playing has been broadcaston radio stations from coast to coast. She appears on the recording In The Midst Of Winds with composer/guitarist Dusan Bogdonovich.

Sharon Wayne earned her BM and MM degrees in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of Southern California, where she received the Ensemble Award for her involvement with the USC Guitar Quartet, with whom she premiered several new works. Sharon was recently on the faculties of Santa Clara University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

From The Heart is her debut album, was recorded for Joplin & Sweeney Music in 1996, and features works by 20th century composers.