At the opening concert of the Liepāja Art Forum Festival, Sean Shibe will perform a special concert program, Out There, an original fusion of electric and acoustic guitar with music from contemporary and classical composers intertwining in the same exceptionally easy manner as the two instruments.

The concert will feature works by Olivier Messiaen, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sofia Gubaidulina (recipient of the European Church Music Prize), Hildegard of Bingen, Julius Eastman, Julia Wolfe, and Agustín Barrios Mangoré.

Sean Shibe is a versatile and innovative guitarist who is praised by critics globally. He was the first guitarist selected for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists project, and he has received two Gramophone and Opus Klassik awards for his records. In 2022, he received the Leonard Bernstein Award. Shibe has performed on the stages of the largest festivals and venues, including Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Center in London and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His repertoire spans from seventeenth-century Bach suites for the lute to original pieces by modern composers. His newest album, Lost & Found, is a collection of pieces by various composers recorded on an electric guitar.