Bridget Kibbey Named Artistic Director
First Season of Programming Begins Fall 2022
When Music at Our Saviour's Atonement (MOSA) returns this fall for its 20th season of concerts, programming will be in new hands, as today MOSA announced the appointment of renowned harpist Bridget Kibbey as Artistic Director. Series founder and Artistic Director-emeritus James Noyes is stepping aside to pursue new career opportunities.
Called "the Yo-Yo Ma of the harp" by Vogue senior editor Corey Seymour, Bridget first appeared on MOSA this past May, as part of Carnegie Hall's Citywide program which provides free concerts at venues in all five boroughs. The concert had originally been scheduled for April 2020, and was the first concert presented by MOSA in more than two years.
"I happen to live a few blocks away from the church, but hadn't been inside before the Citywide concert," Bridget notes. "From the moment I walked in, it was apparent that this is a special space...truly an acoustic gem for live music."
Details for the season will be announced at a later date, but in the works is a series of six concerts between October and May 2023 on Sundays at 5pm. Two of the concerts will continue MOSA's collaboration with Carnegie Hall Citywide. Concerts will be 60-75 minutes long without intermission and feature musicians drawn from Kibbey's network of colleagues and collaborators in the fields of classical, jazz, and world music who also live in Northern Manhattan. New this season will be MOSA-sponsored after-parties, featuring local restaurant vendors, allowing audiences and artists to connect."
"We have the wonderful opportunity to connect neighbors to the highest level of performances by musicians who make Northern Manhattan their home, and who also happen to be some of the best musicians in the world within the classical, Latin Jazz, Jazz and global spheres."
