About Bridget
"...Once she applied her fingers to her large concert harp, it was clear that she was a formidable musician, fluent in the 'modes, colors, and drones' within music that carries the weight of history.”
Extraordinary Bridget Kibbey is known for her great musical instincts that transcend the harp.
She interprets the masters—Bach, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok—bringing “a fresh face to the familiar music” (Seattle City Arts Magazine), while being a bold advocate of genre-crossing storytelling and newly-commissioned works. Through it all, her virtuosic and soulful ability to communicate draws in the audience.
Kibbey has appeared as soloist with the Badisch Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, State Orchestra of Brazil (Pelotas), The Juilliard Symphony, the Israel Youth Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Orlando, Modesto, Illinois, Alabama, Richmond, Skaneateles Festival, Princeton, and the Madison and San José Chamber Orchestras, Metropolis Ensemble, among others.
She has been featured as soloist in North America’s top halls- from Carnegie Hall to the Met Opera Main Stage, to Koerner Hall, the Ordway, the 92nd Street Y, to the Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Menil Collection and beyond. Internationally, she has appeared at Schloss Elmau, Festival St. Denis, ANAM, Festival des Harpes in Arles, France, Festival de Música de Morelia, Pelotas Festival, and the Lucerne Music Festival.
Kibbey has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, SONY Records, and Pentatone, to great critical acclaim. Her debut album was named one of the Top Ten Releases by Time Out New York; and, her next solo release with Pentatone Records is slated for 2026 - a set of surprising keyboard transcriptions.
She is the recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Salon de Virtuosi SONY Recording Grant, premiere prix at the Journées de les Harpes Competition in Arles, France, and won a place in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program. Her solo performances have been broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, New York's WQXR, WNYC's Soundcheck, WETA’s Front Row Washington, WRTI’s Crossover, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts.
Kibbey has commissioned concerti from Vivian Fung and Brazilian composer Joao Luiz, exploring the sounds of Carnaval on the harp; and she brings two newly-commissioned concerti to the stage starting in 2027.
Known for her curatorial strengths, Kibbey builds touring projects that merge her own solo transcriptions alongside powerful collaborations: The Sacred and the Profane, exploring French Masterworks of the Belle Époque alongside the Calidore String Quartet; Bach keyboard concerti and sonatas with the Dover Quartet. Her exploration of world cultures has resulted in Bach to Brazil —celebrating Nuevo Latino Voices alongside Latin Grammy-Winning percussionist/composer Samuel Torres —and Persia to Iberia, a program tracking music of the Islamic Golden Era alongside Iranian Singer Mahsa Vahdat and percussionist John Hadfield.
She has performed in duo with vocalists Kathleen Battle and Dawn Upshaw, mandolinist Avi Avital, the Dover Quartet, violinist Alexi Kenney, the Boy Choir of St. Thomas Church, Latin-Grammy winning percussionist Samuel Torres, Percussionist John Hadfield, Persian singer Mahsa Vahdat, and kora-player Yacouba Sissoko, among others.
Recent performance highlights include appearances as soloist at Toronto’s Koerner Hall, Dumbarton Oaks, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Festival Napa Valley, the VIVO Festival, Saratoga PAC, Alice Tully Hall with Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as appearing as concerto soloist for 40,000 attendees at “Madison’s Concerts at the Capitol” premiering her own transcription of Rodrigo’s Concierto Aranjuez with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Bridget appears frequently as soloist and chamber musician at festivals and series across the USA: Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart, La Jolla Music Society, International Festival l'Avesnois, Aspen, Bravo!Vail, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Big Ears Knoxville, Chamber Music Northwest, Portland Ovations, Bridgehampton, Savannah Music Festival, The Phillips Collection, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The Cliburn, and Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Columbus, Calgary Pro Musicis, Chattanooga’s String Theory, among others.
Kibbey was the 2022/23 Artist in Focus at the Schubert Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota, bringing three programs of her own creation to the city, to great critical acclaim.
From 2022-2024, Kibbey was the Artistic Director of MOSA Concerts, elevating a local concert series to a notable world-class, cross-genre performing arts series. Kibbey showcased the rich diversity of musicians who call Uptown Manhattan home, refocusing the series on presenting talent that live North of Harlem – crossing Classical, Baroque, Latin Jazz, and Global music idioms. Kibbey MC’d each event, tracking the history and stories behind the music.
"...Once she applied her fingers to her large concert harp, it was clear that she was a formidable musician, fluent in the 'modes, colors, and drones' within music that carries the weight of history.”
Extraordinary Bridget Kibbey is known for her great musical instincts that transcend the harp.
She interprets the masters—Bach, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok—bringing “a fresh face to the familiar music” (Seattle City Arts Magazine), while being a bold advocate of genre-crossing storytelling and newly-commissioned works. Through it all, her virtuosic and soulful ability to communicate draws in the audience.
Kibbey has appeared as soloist with the Badisch Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, State Orchestra of Brazil (Pelotas), The Juilliard Symphony, the Israel Youth Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Orlando, Modesto, Illinois, Alabama, Richmond, Skaneateles Festival, Princeton, and the Madison and San José Chamber Orchestras, Metropolis Ensemble, among others.
She has been featured as soloist in North America’s top halls- from Carnegie Hall to the Met Opera Main Stage, to Koerner Hall, the Ordway, the 92nd Street Y, to the Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Menil Collection and beyond. Internationally, she has appeared at Schloss Elmau, Festival St. Denis, ANAM, Festival des Harpes in Arles, France, Festival de Música de Morelia, Pelotas Festival, and the Lucerne Music Festival.
Kibbey has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, SONY Records, and Pentatone, to great critical acclaim. Her debut album was named one of the Top Ten Releases by Time Out New York; and, her next solo release with Pentatone Records is slated for 2026 - a set of surprising keyboard transcriptions.
She is the recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Salon de Virtuosi SONY Recording Grant, premiere prix at the Journées de les Harpes Competition in Arles, France, and won a place in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program. Her solo performances have been broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, New York's WQXR, WNYC's Soundcheck, WETA’s Front Row Washington, WRTI’s Crossover, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts.
Kibbey has commissioned concerti from Vivian Fung and Brazilian composer Joao Luiz, exploring the sounds of Carnaval on the harp; and she brings two newly-commissioned concerti to the stage starting in 2027.
Known for her curatorial strengths, Kibbey builds touring projects that merge her own solo transcriptions alongside powerful collaborations: The Sacred and the Profane, exploring French Masterworks of the Belle Époque alongside the Calidore String Quartet; Bach keyboard concerti and sonatas with the Dover Quartet. Her exploration of world cultures has resulted in Bach to Brazil —celebrating Nuevo Latino Voices alongside Latin Grammy-Winning percussionist/composer Samuel Torres —and Persia to Iberia, a program tracking music of the Islamic Golden Era alongside Iranian Singer Mahsa Vahdat and percussionist John Hadfield.
She has performed in duo with vocalists Kathleen Battle and Dawn Upshaw, mandolinist Avi Avital, the Dover Quartet, violinist Alexi Kenney, the Boy Choir of St. Thomas Church, Latin-Grammy winning percussionist Samuel Torres, Percussionist John Hadfield, Persian singer Mahsa Vahdat, and kora-player Yacouba Sissoko, among others.
Recent performance highlights include appearances as soloist at Toronto’s Koerner Hall, Dumbarton Oaks, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Festival Napa Valley, the VIVO Festival, Saratoga PAC, Alice Tully Hall with Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as appearing as concerto soloist for 40,000 attendees at “Madison’s Concerts at the Capitol” premiering her own transcription of Rodrigo’s Concierto Aranjuez with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Bridget appears frequently as soloist and chamber musician at festivals and series across the USA: Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart, La Jolla Music Society, International Festival l'Avesnois, Aspen, Bravo!Vail, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Big Ears Knoxville, Chamber Music Northwest, Portland Ovations, Bridgehampton, Savannah Music Festival, The Phillips Collection, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The Cliburn, and Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Columbus, Calgary Pro Musicis, Chattanooga’s String Theory, among others.
Kibbey was the 2022/23 Artist in Focus at the Schubert Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota, bringing three programs of her own creation to the city, to great critical acclaim.
From 2022-2024, Kibbey was the Artistic Director of MOSA Concerts, elevating a local concert series to a notable world-class, cross-genre performing arts series. Kibbey showcased the rich diversity of musicians who call Uptown Manhattan home, refocusing the series on presenting talent that live North of Harlem – crossing Classical, Baroque, Latin Jazz, and Global music idioms. Kibbey MC’d each event, tracking the history and stories behind the music.
