past concerts
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3/4 - 3/10
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6 Sep
VIVO Music Festival: Echoes
Kibbey performs her own transcription of Britten’s powerful Lachrymae alongside a world-premiere work of Clara Iannotta, for harp, string trio, and electronics.
Learn more7 Sep
Vivo Music Festival: Beer and Beethoven
Kibbey joins her Vivo Festival teammates in a cabaret-style chamber music and solo harp evening!
Learn more9 Sep
Vivo Music Festival: Kibbey plays Bach Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor
Kibbey performs her own transcription of JS Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056 alongside Vivo Festival Artists.
Learn more17 Sep
MOSA Concerts Opening Night: New Cuban Voices
Kibbey launches her 2nd season as Artistic Director of MOSA Concerts! Join us for opening night, celebrating Cuban Voices in honor of Hispanic Heritage month.
Learn more8 Oct
Festival Napa Valley: Crossing the Ocean Record Release Preview!
Kibbey celebrates the upcoming release of her newest solo record, her debut album for Pentatone Records, Crossing the Ocean, in the heart of San Francisco!
Learn more26 Oct
Britten, Ibert, & Jolivet w/ the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Works by Britten, Ibert, and Jolivet. Kibbey joins her fantastic colleagues at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing a rich set of French chamber music alongside her own transcription of Britten’s powerful Lachrymae for viola and harp.
Learn more26 Oct
Britten, Ibert, & Jolivet w/ the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Works by Britten, Ibert, and Jolivet. Kibbey joins her fantastic colleagues at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing a rich set of French chamber music alongside her own transcription of Britten’s powerful Lachrymae for viola and harp.
Learn more4 Nov
Mistral Music: Solo works from Crossing the Ocean
Kibbey showcases solo repertoire from her newly-released solo album for Pentatone Records, Crossing the Ocean, while joining Mistral Artistic Director Julie Scolnik in duo works for flute and harp by Debussy, Piazzola, and Ibert.
Learn more5 Nov
Solo works from Crossing the Ocean
Kibbey showcases solo repertoire from her newly-released solo album for Pentatone Records, Crossing the Ocean, while joining Mistral Artistic Director Julie Scolnik in duo works for flute and harp by Debussy, Piazzola, and Ibert.
Learn more11 Nov
Solo Recital: Crossing the Ocean at ArtsRock
Kibbey celebrates the release of her debut album for Pentatone Records, Crossing the Ocean, for solo harp, in a candle-lit concert event.
Learn more19 Nov
Baroque Two Ways: MOSA Concerts, co-presented by Carnegie Hall Citywide
Baroque specialist, violinist Katie Hyun and Kibbey team up to explore “Baroque Two Ways”, with the debut performance of the Uptown Manhattan Consort.
Learn more30 Nov
Kibbey's NYC Record Release Party at National Sawdust
Kibbey invites you to celebrate her newest solo record release, Crossing the Ocean, with Pentatone Records.
Learn more2 Dec
Persian Singer Mahsa Vahdat and Bridget Kibbey Perform in Duo
Persian Singer Mahsa Vahdat and Bridget Kibbey Perform in Duo at the Conrad, San Diego
Learn more21 Jan
Bridget’s Debut in Toronto’s Koerner Hall: the 21C Festival
Kibbey makes her Koerner Hall Debut via the 21C Festival!
Learn more10 Feb
Debussy Danses & Ravel Sonatine w/The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Notable works by trailblazers Debussy and Ravel
Learn more21 Feb
Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Music Series: Debussy's Trio Sonata
Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp follows, a chamber music gem that showcases the interplay between the flute, viola, and harp, creating an ethereal soundscape that encapsulates Debussy’s fascination with color and atmosphere. Written against the backdrop of World War I, the sonata resonates with both melancholy and hope.
Learn more25 Feb
Dumbarton Oaks Solo Recital: Crossing the Ocean
Crossing the ocean and back again, Kibbey displays the influences, colors and modes behind the music we love.
Learn more26 Feb
Dumbarton Oaks Solo Recital: Crossing the Ocean
Crossing the ocean and back again, Kibbey displays the influences, colors and modes behind the music we love.
Learn more4 Mar
3/4 - 3/10
17 Mar
Art of Song with Soprano Ariadne Greif
Kibbey invites Ariadne Greif, one of today’s most powerful communicators of the song literature, to join her in the world-premiere performance of Avner Dorman’s Butterfly Songs
Learn more29 Mar
Bach to Brazil at the Savannah Music Festival 5pm
SMF favorite Bridget Kibbey expands the expressive and virtuosic scope of the instrument as she ushers listeners from the baroque courts of Europe, to the rhythms of Western Africa, to the indigenous melodies of South America – landing right in the heart of New York City. With an ensemble featuring Nuevo Latino luminaries, Bach to Brazil is J.S. Bach meets Albéniz, meets gnawa, jequibau, cumbia and more.
Learn more29 Mar
Bach to Brazil at the Savannah Music Festival 8:30pm
SMF favorite Bridget Kibbey expands the expressive and virtuosic scope of the instrument as she ushers listeners from the baroque courts of Europe, to the rhythms of Western Africa, to the indigenous melodies of South America – landing right in the heart of New York City. With an ensemble featuring Nuevo Latino luminaries, Bach to Brazil is J.S. Bach meets Albéniz, meets gnawa, jequibau, cumbia and more.
Learn more31 Mar
Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, celebrated Persian Singers, with Harpist Kibbey
In a fully-improvised set, Kibbey joins Mahsa and Marjan in re-inventions of the Persian classical vocal tradition. The trio met in January, 2020, and are reuniting for a celebration of Rumi, Hafez, and the culture and language that has stood the test of time. These are two of today's most compelling voices in resistance, and Kibbey provides the waves and harmony to the commanding voices.
Learn more13 Apr
French Chamber Music in Bridgehampton
The harp is at the center of a gorgeous program of color and nuance by French composers, alongside a rarely heard gem by Italian Nino Rota, most well-known as the composer of The Godfather.
Learn more21 Apr
Leyenda! Co-Presented Carnegie Hall Citywide and MOSA Concerts
MOSA Artistic Director Bridget Kibbey invites superstars Macedonian/Turkish clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski (of the New York Gypsy All-Stars) and Latin-Grammy Winning percussionist Samuel Torres to explore one of the most exciting migration patterns throughout history, in her newest production, Leyenda!
Learn more12 May
Kibbey With Kathleen Battle at the Metropolitan Opera Main Stage
Bridget joins Kathleen Battle in her historic return to the Met in intimate duos and trios of Purcell, Handel, to Fauré and Schubert. Alongside jazz guitarist Chico Pinheiro, the team creates tapestries and arrangements of Battle’s SONY and Deutsche Grammophon Canon! Kibbey makes a solo cameo in her own arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565.
Learn more22 May
World-Premiere by Loeffler at the Library of Congress
A newly-discovered Octet joins the chamber music canon! With soaring melodies and virtuosic Hungarian dance elements to-boot, the all-star team gives it a go. Bridget and Graeme team up for an intimate rendition of Timbres Oubliés to cap the evening…Special congratulations to clarinetist/scholar Graeme Steele Johnson for bringing this score to life.
Learn more23 May
Works by Debussy and Loeffler
A newly-discovered Octet joins the chamber music canon! With soaring melodies, arpeggiations and virtuosic Hungarian dance elements to-boot, the all-star team gives it a go where the scores were first discovered…Special congrats to Graeme Steele Johnson for bringing this score to life.
Learn more24 May
Kibbey with Comedian Jenny Slate
Kibbey provides the continuo for Jenny Slate’s sneak-peek into her writing, via improvisations that set the tone and react on-the-spot. The event is SOLD OUT, but you can catch Kibbey with Jenny Slate this Fall at NYC’s Town Hall…
Learn more29 May
Solo Recital- Salon de Virtuosi at the Indian Consulate/Astor Mansion
Kibbey, a former Salon de Virtuosi SONY Recording Grant Winner presents a solo recital, with works of Bach, Fauré, Albéniz, Debussy, Britten, and Kibbey, before joining up with renowned artists in the Indian musical tradition for a fully-improvised set, with Snehesh Nag (sitar) and Archik Banerjee (tabla).
Learn more12 Jun
Cleveland ChamberFest: Debussy Danses
Playful Mozart sets the tone, kicking things off with a flourish. Debussy’s atmospheric work for harp and string quartet introduces the theme of contrasts, with the harp sparkling like a mirror ball, strings swelling and swirling.
Learn more14 Jun
Cleveland ChamberFest: Baroque Masterpieces
This program has a magical quality, with mood shifts and unexpected contrasts filling the soulful gothic elegance of Harkness Chapel. First, a pair of Baroque works for violin and harp.
Learn more15 Jun
Cleveland ChamberFest: Caplet’s Mask of the Red Death
A marvelous kaleidoscope of expanded sounds and distinctive tonal colorations fills this program with a strange beauty.
Learn more27 Jun
Kibbey and Viano Quartet play Debussy and Ravel
Internationally acclaimed harpist Bridget Kibbey is known for diving deep into baroque music, French Belle Époque, Nuevo Latino traditions and beyond. She is joined by the Viano Quartet, which won First Prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Together they perform Debussy’s Danses Sacrée et Profane and Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro.
Learn more5 Jul
Caramoor
With virtuosic sweeps, opulent arpeggiations, to the most intimate sonorities, Bridget Kibbey and the Calidore Quartet team up to share tales of love, death, and the macabre via masters of color: Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, André Caplet, and Maurice Ravel.
Learn more21 Jul
Americans in Paris: Gershwin/Debussy/Currier/Ravel
Kibbey performs the harp’s best French gems alongside a world-premiere by Sebastian Currier for harp and string quartet.
Learn more27 Jul
Music@Menlo Quartets & Harp
Kibbey performs Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, one of the harp’s most opulent works that ushered the instrument center-stage at the turn of the century France! The pairing? A newly-discovered Octet joins the chamber music canon.
Learn more3 Aug
Ginastera Harp Concerto at the Skaneateles Festival
The largest-ever Festival Orchestra takes on a colorful program of music from North and South America. Conductor Nicholas Hersch leads the orchestra in Alberto Ginastera’s Harp Concerto featuring Bridget Kibbey, Gershwin’s beloved Rhapsody in Blue, with pianist Aaron Wunsch; and more.
Learn more18 Aug
KIbbey plays Biber and Ravel at Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Kibbey is featured with the Chamber Music Society at Saratoga’s PAC in Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, and on continuo in works of Bach, Biber, and Vivaldi.
Learn more29 Sep
Mostly Music
Kibbey joins Tessa Lark, Paul Neubauer, and Sooyun Kim for Bach, Biber, Debussy, and Jacob de Bandolim!
Learn more18 Nov
CONDUCTING the Composers Now Chestwatyr Commissions Concert
Kibbey conducts the Harlem Chamber Players in a world-premiere work by jazz trumpeter and composer Milena Casado, jazz combo, and strings.
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