Sean Shibe’s imagination extends far beyond the standard guitar repertoire. In his concerts and on his nine albums to date, he brings centuries-old music into dialogue with the music of today, combining classics with rarities, original works and his own arrangements, and acoustic with electric guitar. Born in 1992, the Scottish musician has been hailed by Víkingur Ólafsson as “one of today’s most interesting musical artists.” In addition to dazzling technique and a finely tuned ear for tone color, he is endlessly curious and remarkably versatile. In the first half of his Lucerne Festival debut, Shibe invites us to the Iberian Peninsula, tracing a path from delicate fantasies originally written for the vihuela, the foremost plucked instrument of the Spanish Renaissance, to a brand-new work by Francisco Coll drawing on medieval songs of the Sephardim, the Jewish minority of the Iberian Peninsula. He will then take up the electric guitar for a set juxtaposing the ethereal, mystical music of Olivier Messiaen and American performance artist Meredith Monk with Steve Reich’s Minimalist classic Electric Counterpoint.