First Annual Tucson HarpFest – Harp Studio Recital

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

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One thing that needs to be considered in this time of major climate change concern is the carbon emissions of flying in artists from overseas. The carbon emissions of flying Stockholm-Tucson roundtrip come to about 3 tons per economy class passenger. That is comparable to the carbon emissions produced by the average American in 1 year of driving. Could a US-based organist have played this recital (shorter travel distance and lower emissions)? Or, is Hammarstrom already on tour in the US (thus consolidating multiple recitals into 1 overseas trip)? There is also the option of offsetting flight emissions. Saying this as a DMA grad of the UA organ program and as an astronomy educator who’s following the astronomy field’s efforts to mitigate climate impact.

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