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Performances with

Philadelphia Orchestra
Network for New Music
Baltimore Symphony
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Reading Symphony
Harrisburg Symphony
Pennsylvania Ballet
Richmond Symphony
Toledo Symphony
West Virginia Symphony

 

Venues

Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
Carnegie Hall
Kennedy Center
Avery Fisher Hall
Toldeo Peristyle
Caesars Atlantic City
Harrah's Atlantic City
Resorts Atlantic City
Tropicana Atlantic City

 

Headline Acts

Tony Bennett
Natalie Cole
Bernadette Peters
Frank Sinatra Jr.
Josh Grobin
Joni Mitchell
Peter Cetera
Connie Francis
Manheim Steamroller
Henry Mancini

 

Extended Engagements

Four Seasons, Philadelphia
Palace Hotel, Tokyo
Manza Beach Hotel, Okinawa
Grand Hotel, Mackinac Is., Mich.
QE2 Oceanliner

 

Featured Performer

American Harp Society National Conferences, Ann Arbor, Phila.,
World Harp Congress, Geneva
Lyon & Healy Pop and Jazz Harpfest, Tucson, Salt Lake City

 

Faculty

Rowan University
Young Artist's Harp Seminar
Saratoga Harp Colony

  


Performer

One of Philadelphia's most active and versatile harpists, Kimberly Rowe, has performed with the region's top ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and others. She appears regularly with Network for New Music, one of the region’s premiere contemporary music groups, and also performs frequently in Atlantic City showrooms for stars that have included Tony Bennett, Bernadette Peters, Josh Grobin, and many others.

In addition to her work with ensembles, Kimberly Rowe has performed extended engagements as a solo harpist at elite venus around the world including the Palace Hotel, in Tokyo, the Manza Beach Hotel, in Okinawa, the Grand Hotel, in Mackinaw Island, Michigan, and the Four Seasons Hotel, in Philadelphia, where she served as resident harpist for two years. Rowe has also performed in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean aboard the QE2 oceanliner.

Rowe has been a featured performer at major harp events around the world including the American Harp Society National Conference (1993 and 2004), Lyon & Healy’s International Jazz and Pop Harpfest (1993 and 2007), and the 2002 World Harp Congress, in Geneva, Switzerland, as a member of the Salzedo Harp Ensemble. She has given presentations for the American Harp Society in Philadelphia and Washington D.C., and has been a guest speaker at institutions such as the University of Michigan.

Teacher

Kimberly Rowe's private teaching studio includes some of the Philadelphia area’s most talented young harpists; her students have been members of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra, the Rowan University Youth Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, the Delaware All-State Orchestra, the New Jersey All State Orchestra, the All-South Jersey Regional Orchestra,the Delaware County Youth Orchestra, and the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra, and have attended prestigious summer programs such as the Young Artist’s Harp Seminar, Interlochen Arts Camp, and the Saratoga Harp Colony. Rowe's private students have gone on to pursue harp careers at schools such as the Curtis Institute of Music and Temple University.

Kimberly Rowe is co-founder and artist faculty of the Young Artist’s Harp Seminar, a two-week summer program for talented young harpists located in Rabun Gap, Georgia; she is also a co-founder and director of the Beginning in the Middle seminar for adult harp students. Rowe is harp instructor at Rowan University, in Glassboro, N.J. and also serves on the faculty the Saratoga Harp Colony, founded by Philadelphia Orchestra Principal harpist Elizabeth Hainen.

Publisher

In 1993 Kimberly Rowe and her husband Hugh Brock launched Harp Column magazine, which now circulates to harpists throughout the world. As editor and designer of Harp Column, Rowe's interviews with leading harpists, product reviews, and articles on subjects like which "harpmobile" will best transport a harp have grown the magazine into the harp community's largest independently produced publication, including advertisements from leading harp manufacturers.

Education

Kimberly Rowe attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1987 and a Master of Music degree in 1989 studying with renowned harp pedagogue Alice Chalifoux. Rowe also worked with Chalifoux at the Salzedo Summer Harp Colony, in Camden, Maine, from 1982–1990. From 1979–1988 Rowe attended the Brevard Music Center studying both flute and harp.