Extraordinary Bridget Kibbey is known for her great musical instincts that transcend the harp. According to the New York Times, “she makes 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.” She interprets the masters, while being in demand alongside today’s top classical, global and Latin Jazz artists. Through it all, her virtuosic and soulful ability to communicate draws in the audience.

An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and winner of the Premier Prix in the Journées de les Harpes Competition of Arles, France, Kibbey has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, SONY Records, and Pentatone Records. This season’s highlights include concerti debuts with the Baltimore Symphony and National Philharmonic, solo and collaborative appearances in Alice Tully Hall, Musical Masterworks, Matinee Musicales, Emerald City Music, Concerts International, as well as various recitals and masterclasses across the United States.

Kibbey performs and records in duo with a veritable “who’s who” within the arts: Kathleen Battle, Dawn Upshaw, Avi Avital, Alexi Kenney, the Dover Quartet, Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat, Latin-Grammy winning Samuel Torres and beyond.

She is often featured in programming of her own curation- from Carnegie Hall to the Met Opera Main Stage, Koerner Hall, the Ordway, the 92nd Street Y, to the Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Kimmel Center, to 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, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras across the United States, South America, and the Middle East.

Most recently, 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; Bach keyboard works re-imagined with the Dover Quartet; and, celebrating world cultures and various folk idioms 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’s given world-premiere performances of works by notable composers Elliott Carter, Vivian Fung, João Luiz Rezende, Kaija Sarriaho, Sebastian Currier, Paquito d’Rivera, Kinan Azmeh, Susie Ibarra, Avner Dorman, Osvaldo Golijov, Kati Agócs, among others.

Kibbey is a graduate of the Juilliard School (winner of the Peter Mennin Prize for musical excellence), where she was a student of Nancy Allen.