First Annual Tucson HarpFest – Guest Artist: Bridget Kibbey
Special Event
Host: Michelle Gott
October 18-20, Friday-Sunday
Info: gottharp@email.arizona.edu
This weekend festival with internationally renowned harpist Bridget Kibbey will offer master classes, workshops and performances. Hailed by Vogue’s senior editor as “the Yo-Yo Ma of the harp,” Bridget Kibbey expands the platform and scope of what the harp communicates on stage. She has gained a reputation for her diverse, energetic programming that spans the baroque, French masterworks and rhythmic migration evolving into the dance forms we love in modern-day Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.
Bridget Kibbey Recital
October 18, Friday, 7:00 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, $Free
Bridget Kibbey Master Class: Repertoire for Solo Harp
October 19, Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, $Free
Bridget Kibbey Workshop: Exploring Baroque Music on the Modern Harp
October 19, Saturday, 3:00-5:30 p.m., Room 232, $Free
Harp Studio Recital
October 20, Sunday, 1:00 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, $Free
About Bridget Kibbey
Called the “Yo-Yo Ma of the harp,” by Vogue’s Senior Editor Corey Seymour, Bridget Kibbey expands the platform and scope of what the harp communicates on stage, via her own touring projects.
As a result, Kibbey has fast gained a reputation for her diverse, energetic programming that spans the baroque, French Masterworks, and rhythmic migration evolving into the dance forms we love in modern-day Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
2019/2020 highlights include J.S. Bach’s keyboard concerti alongside the Dover Quartet in the US and Canada, a ten-city duo collaboration with mandolinist Avi Avital, four world-premiere performances of the João Luiz Harp Concerto -exploring the evolution of Brazilian popular dance forms on the harp.
As a bandleader she performs alongside and celebrates NYC’s Nuevo Latino culture with percussionist Samuel Torres, clarinetist Benito Meza, and guitarist João Luiz Rezende via Carnegie Hall’s CityWide project.
Kibbey is a winner of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Salon de Virtuosi SONY Recording Grant, the only harpist to win a place in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program, Premiere Prix at the Journées de les Harpes Competition in Arles, France, and winner of Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Juilliard School Peter Mennin Prize for Artistic Excellence and Leadership.
She has toured and recorded with luminaries Placido Domingo, Dawn Upshaw, and Gustavo Santaollalo for SONY Records and Deutsche Grammaphon; and, her own debut album, Love is Come Again, was named one of the Top Ten Releases by Time Out New York.
Ms. Kibbey’s solo performances have been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today, New York’s WQXR, WNYC’s Soundcheck, WETA’s Front Row Washington, WRTI’s Crossover, and on television in A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts. Most recently Bridget was named “Best in Studio 2018” by WQXR for her performance of her own adaptation of J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, live on air.
She appears frequently as soloist and chamber musician at festivals and series across the globe, including Schloss Elmau, Pelotas Festival, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart, International Festival d’Avesnois, Aspen, Bravo!Vail, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Big Ears Knoxville, Chamber Music Northwest, Bridgehampton, Bay Chamber, Savannah Music Festival, and Music@Menlo, among others.
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and fugue in D minor BWV 565 (before 1708)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk. 1 (1722)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Suite for harp, Op. 83 (1969)
Overture
Toccata
Nocturne
Fugue
Hymn – St. Denio
Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
Song to the moon from Rusalka, Op. 114 (1900)
INTERMISSION
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056 (1738)
1. Moderato
2. Lento
3. Presto
Isaac Albéniz (1869-1909)
Granada, from Suite Espagnole
Paquito d’Rivera (b. 1948)
Bandoneon
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
March, Song of the Lark from The Seasons
José Barros / Benito Meza (b. 1975)
El Pescador
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