Sacred and the Profane

Kibbey teams up with a star-studded cast of strings to showcase the harp’s entrance to the concert stage, from the most intimate sonorities to virtuosic sweeps and gestures. The team traverses the early baroque to the French Belle Époque, to modern colorists – in a musical dialogue juxtaposing light and dark, solemnity and intrigue, death and redemption…

Repertoire:

Claude Debussy: Danses Sacrée et Profane (Quartet/Kibbey)

Camille Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie for Violin and Harp, Op. 124 (Chad Hoopes/Kibbey)

J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 (Kibbey)

Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae (Matthew Lipman/Kibbey)

John Dowland: Flow my Tears (Matthew Lipman/Kibbey)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Preludium from Rosary Sonata, the Annunciation (Chad Hoopes, Kibbey)

CPE Bach: Violin Sonata in G Minor, H. 542.5 (Chad Hoopes/Kibbey)

André Caplet: The Mask of the Red Death, after Edgar Allen Poe (Quartet/Kibbey)

Artist Collaborators: 

Chad Hoopes, Violin

Violin

Matthew Lipman, Viola

Mihai Marica, Cello

ASSOCIATED CONCERTS

Acclaim

"One of the most riveting and unusual chamber music performances of my lifetime....a Yo-Yo Ma of the harp."

-Vogue Magazine, Senior Editor Corey Seymour

"Kibbey and Hoopes conquered this late Romantic showpiece with fiery artistry and perfection of technique.”

-Seen and Heard International

In its early 20th century concert outings, [Debussy’s] Danses elicited mixed receptions, but here, unabashedly an audience rave. Indeed, the necessary kinetics made Kibbey’s performance seem like a dance in itself.

-The Boston Musical Intelligencer

"...As performance, it was pure punk rock."

-New York Music Daily

"Harpist-slash-Rockstar Bridget Kibbey brought a haunting program to the catacombs, accompanied by a crack team of top-shelf string players. Together, they performed epic music that hovers in the shadows between darkness and light, from Debussy’s Sacred and Profane dances, to Bach’s haunting Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, to the grand finale: André Caplet’s gripping Conte Fantastique. After experiencing this show, we can tell you that the harp does not equal angelic!”

-New York Events

"Yet it is Kibbey who treats us to all the possibilities of her harp, part piano, part orchestra, but in her hands, always an instrument of great mystery and beauty." "The audience was treated to another special evening, unexpected, thrilling and satisfying. This is what live classical music can be. Listening to Kibbey, the harp converts listeners.”

-Berkshire Fine Arts

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