Sacred and the Profane

Kibbey leads a consort of star-studded strings in a program merging the baroque, French masterworks, to the modern!

Solos, duos... and coming together for two works that launched the harp to the front of the concert stage, Kibbey and team delves into themes of love, death, and the macabre!

Works by Bach, Biber, Britten, Caplet, Debussy, Franck, and Saint-Saëns.

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 (trans. for solo harp, Kibbey)

Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae (Matthew Lipman/Kibbey)

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

César Franck: Prelude, Fugue, Variation (trans. for solo harp, Kibbey)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Preludium from Rosary Sonata, the Annunciation (Stella Chen, Kibbey)

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

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

Artist Collaborators: 

Chad Hoopes, Violin

Stella Chen, 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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