Bridget Kibbey, harp
Bridget Kibbey has been recognized for her versatility as a solo, orchestral, and chamber musician, as she explores new and well-established repertoire for the harp. She has been awarded numerous prizes and awards, including the Juilliard Peter Mennin Prize for Musical Leadership and Excellence, the Patricia Furley Harp Performance Prize at the Corpus Christi Young Artists' International Competition, an American Harp Society Ann Adams Award, and second prize of the Young Division of the American String Teacher's Association National Competition.
Most recently, Ms. Kibbey, in collaboration with flutist Julietta Curenton, won the premier prix at the 2001 International Chamber Music Competition in Arles, France. Ms. Kibbey and Ms. Curenton will be featured recitalists in Geneva, Switzerland at the 2002 World Harp Congress and the 2002 "Journee de la Harpe" Festival in Arles, France and will be performing in and around New York City as affiliate artists with the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series.
Ms. Kibbey has appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony in Alice Tully Hall, the Young Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv's Reconati Hall, the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, and the US Army Orchestra. An advocate of new music, Ms. Kibbey has enjoyed premiering works of student and long-standing composers with such ensembles as Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne of Montreal. This season, Ms. Kibbey was a featured soloist in the Elliot Carter/Oliver Knussen workshop of Carnegie Hall. She is also a founding member and harpist of the International Contemporary Ensemble based in Chicago. Ms. Kibbey has performed as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Pacific Music Festival, and the June in Buffalo Festival, as well as acting as teaching assistant at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival.
Ms. Kibbey is currently pursuing a Masters of Music degree at The Juilliard School, where she studies with Nancy Allen as the recipient of a Mustard Seed Foundation Harvey Fellowship Award.
As acclaimed by the New York Times, "…she 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."
