Harpist Bridget Kibbey is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, a winner of the 2007 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and most recently joined the roster of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two. As The New York Times declares: “Bridget Kibbey…made it seem as though her instrument had been waiting all its life to explode with the gorgeous colors and energetic figures she was getting from it.”

Bridget Kibbey recently self-released a solo album entitled Love is Come Again, named one of 2007's Top Ten Albums by Time Out New York. She also joined soprano Dawn Upshaw in recording Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs and Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ayre” for Deutsche Grammophon. Ms. Kibbey’s solo performances have been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today, A & E’s Breakfast with the Arts, WNYC’s Soundcheck, and WQXR. She has also been profiled in SYMPHONY, MUSO, and Harp Column magazines.

Ms. Kibbey has been featured as soloist with the Tallahassee Symphony, Juilliard Symphony, Israel Youth Philharmonic, Symphony in C, Princeton Symphony, Westmoreland Symphony, Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. She frequently performs as recitalist across the United States, including debuts in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall and Merkin Concert Hall. As an orchestral harpist she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
With a passion for performing new works on the harp, she gave the New York premier of Elliott Carter’s Mosaic in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall for the composer’s 100th Birthday and the American premier of Sebastian Currier’s Broken Minuets in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center with Symphony in C. Bridget is the recipient of the 2008 Carlos Surinach BMI Commissioning Prize. She has chosen composer Nathan Shields to write a work for string quartet and harp to be premiered in the 2011-2012 season at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is the founding harpist of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

Festival appearances include the Tanglewood Music Center, Spoleto, Ojai, St. Denis (Paris), Vermont Mozart, and the Pacific Music Festivals. Ms. Kibbey is a winner of Astral Artistic Services 2003 Auditions, the Juilliard School Peter Mennin Prize and the Premier Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition of Arles, France (in collaboration with flutist Julietta Curenton).
She recently joined the harp faculties of Bard Conservatory, Vassar College, and The Juilliard School Pre-College program. Ms. Kibbey holds both Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from The Juilliard School where she completed studies with Nancy Allen and received the Peter Mennin Prize for Musical Excellence.

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