Faculty

Bridget Kibbey holds both Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from The Juilliard School where she completed studies with Nancy Allen. She is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She recently self-released a solo album entitled Love is Come Again, named one of 2007's Top Ten Albums by Time Out New York. She also joined soprano Dawn Upshaw in recording Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs and Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ayre” for Deutsche Grammophon. Ms. Kibbey’s solo performances have been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today, A & E’s Breakfast with the Arts and WQXR. She has also been profiled in SYMPHONY, MUSO, and Harp Column magazines.

Ms. Kibbey has been featured as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, Israel Youth Philharmonic, Haddonfield Symphony, Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, America’s Dream Chamber Artists and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra.  As an orchestral harpist she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.   She recently joined the roster of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS II program.

Ms. Kibbey has premiered works by both emerging and prominent living composers, including Kati Agocs, Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho, Augusta Read Thomas, Charles Wuorinen and Benjamin Yusopov. She has appeared at numerous festivals, including the Tanglewood Music Center and the Spoleto, Ojai, St. Denis (Paris) and Pacific Music Festivals. Along with her CAG victory in October 2007, Ms. Kibbey is a winner of Astral Artistic Services 2003 Auditions, the Juilliard School Peter Mennin Prize and the Premier Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition of Arles, France (in collaboration with flutist Julietta Curenton), and second prize in the Valentino Bucchi International Competition of Rome.  

Bridget Kibbey presents forums to composition students discussing writing for the harp as well as performing student works and 20th century masterpieces in the nation's leading conservatories, including the Curtis Institute, The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music.  In addition to teaching at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, she is a member of the harp faculties of New York University, Vassar College, and The Juilliard School Pre-College program.