Metropolis Ensemble with Bridget Kibbey: "Music Box"
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Metropolis Ensemble (www.metropolisensemble.org) gathers today's most innovative young composers and outstanding artists to create new experiences for audiences and music lovers. Led by Grammy-nominated conductor Andrew Cyr, Metropolis Ensemble is a professional chamber orchestra and ensemble dedicated to making classical music in its most contemporary forms. Founded in 2006, Metropolis Ensemble has commissioned over 70 works of music from a dynamic mix of emerging composers and has been presented by The Wordless Music Series, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and Celebrate Brooklyn.
Grammy-nominated conductor Andrew Cyr is a leader in the rapidly growing contemporary music scene. His enthusiasm for fostering the outstanding musicians and composers of a new generation and for connecting them with new audiences led him to create Metropolis Ensemble in 2006. Cyr has conducted performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Kimmel Center, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and made his debut with the Wordless Music Series, sharing the stage with indie-rock sensation Deerhoof in a remix of The Rite of Spring for a live audience of 10,000 people. Cyr recently made his conducting debut at Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall as part of ?uestlove and The Roots' "Philly-Paris Lockdown" at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
Bridget Kibbey:
Harpist Bridget Kibbey's passionate performances display the unique abilities of this fantastic instrument, with genre-bending performances ranging from baroque to world music, to collaboration with singer/songwriters, to commissioning new works from today's composers. An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and a winner of Concert Artist Guild's 2007 International Competition and Astral Artist Auditions, Ms. Kibbey's performances have been broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, on New York's WQXR, WNYC's Soundcheck, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. She may be heard on Deutsche Grammaphon with Dawn Upshaw on Berio's Folk Songs and Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre, and has toured the work with Ms. Upshaw in the US and abroad. Bridget's debut album, Love is Come Again, was named one of 2007's Top Ten Releases by Time out New York. As hailed by the New York Times, harpist Bridget Kibbey "...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."
Ms. Kibbey has collaborated with an array of artists in repertoire new and established, including Ian Bostridge, David Krakauer, Jaime Laredo, Edgar Meyer, Mayumi Miyata, Cristina Pato, Sharon Robinson, David Schifrin, and the Calder and Jupiter Quartets. She is frequently featured with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is the founding harpist of the International Contemporary Ensemble and Metropolis Ensemble.
This season's highlights include Opening Night at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and multiple appearances in Alice Tully Hall showcasing French works with harp, appearances at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C, Boston's Gardner Museum, concerto appearances with the Modesto Symphony, Illinois Symphony, a concerto tour with the Manchester Festival Strings, and performances at Music @ Menlo and the Mostly Mozart Festival.
A leader in broadening the scope and platform of her instrument, she has premiered new works by Kati Agocs, Harrison Birtwistle, Sebastian Currier, Pierre Boulez, Nathan Shields, Kaija Saariaho, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Augusta Read Thomas, Charles Wuorinen, among others. Ms. Kibbey performed Britten's Canticles in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall with tenor Ian Bostridge, performed the New York premier of Elliot Carter's Mosaic in Zankel Hall for the composer's 100th birthday, and the American premier of Sebastian Currier's Broken Minuets with Symphony in C in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center.
Ms. Kibbey is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Nancy Allen. She is on the harp faculties of Bard Conservatory, New York University, and the Juilliard Pre-College Program.
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Grammy-nominated conductor Andrew Cyr is a leader in the rapidly growing contemporary music scene. His enthusiasm for fostering the outstanding musicians and composers of a new generation and for connecting them with new audiences led him to create Metropolis Ensemble in 2006. Cyr has conducted performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Kimmel Center, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and made his debut with the Wordless Music Series, sharing the stage with indie-rock sensation Deerhoof in a remix of The Rite of Spring for a live audience of 10,000 people. Cyr recently made his conducting debut at Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall as part of ?uestlove and The Roots' "Philly-Paris Lockdown" at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
Bridget Kibbey:
Harpist Bridget Kibbey's passionate performances display the unique abilities of this fantastic instrument, with genre-bending performances ranging from baroque to world music, to collaboration with singer/songwriters, to commissioning new works from today's composers. An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and a winner of Concert Artist Guild's 2007 International Competition and Astral Artist Auditions, Ms. Kibbey's performances have been broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, on New York's WQXR, WNYC's Soundcheck, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. She may be heard on Deutsche Grammaphon with Dawn Upshaw on Berio's Folk Songs and Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre, and has toured the work with Ms. Upshaw in the US and abroad. Bridget's debut album, Love is Come Again, was named one of 2007's Top Ten Releases by Time out New York. As hailed by the New York Times, harpist Bridget Kibbey "...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."
Ms. Kibbey has collaborated with an array of artists in repertoire new and established, including Ian Bostridge, David Krakauer, Jaime Laredo, Edgar Meyer, Mayumi Miyata, Cristina Pato, Sharon Robinson, David Schifrin, and the Calder and Jupiter Quartets. She is frequently featured with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is the founding harpist of the International Contemporary Ensemble and Metropolis Ensemble.
This season's highlights include Opening Night at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and multiple appearances in Alice Tully Hall showcasing French works with harp, appearances at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C, Boston's Gardner Museum, concerto appearances with the Modesto Symphony, Illinois Symphony, a concerto tour with the Manchester Festival Strings, and performances at Music @ Menlo and the Mostly Mozart Festival.
A leader in broadening the scope and platform of her instrument, she has premiered new works by Kati Agocs, Harrison Birtwistle, Sebastian Currier, Pierre Boulez, Nathan Shields, Kaija Saariaho, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Augusta Read Thomas, Charles Wuorinen, among others. Ms. Kibbey performed Britten's Canticles in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall with tenor Ian Bostridge, performed the New York premier of Elliot Carter's Mosaic in Zankel Hall for the composer's 100th birthday, and the American premier of Sebastian Currier's Broken Minuets with Symphony in C in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center.
Ms. Kibbey is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Nancy Allen. She is on the harp faculties of Bard Conservatory, New York University, and the Juilliard Pre-College Program.