Kimberly Rowe is best known as editor of Harp Column, a magazine she founded in 1993 that circulates to harpists worldwide. She continues to produce, edit, and design the publication from her Philadelphia office, while also teaching young harp students and performing with ensembles throughout the mid-Atlantic region. She has performed multiple times with The Phladelphia Orchestra for maestros Charles Dutoit, Cristoph Eschenbach, and others, including the orchestra's 2010 tour of Asia and performances at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Verizon Hall in Philadelphia.
Kimberly has been a featured performer at conferences of the American Harp Society, the World Harp Congress, Camac's Festival de la Harpe, and Lyon & Healy's International Jazz and Pop Harpfest. She has performed in Atlantic City showrooms for stars such as Tony Bennett, Bernadette Peters, Natalie Cole, and many others, and served as resident harpist at Philadelphia's Four Seasons Hotel and onbaord the oceanliner QE2. Her duo Atlantic Flute and Harp, with flutist Heather Fortune, has given performances throughout Philadelphia and New Jersey as well as the British Virgin Islands.
In 2008 Kimberly founded the Young Artists Harp Ensemble through Temple Music Preparatory's Center for Gifted Young Musicians; she also teaches undergradute students at Temple's Boyer College of Music and Dance. She is co-director and founder of the Young Artist's Harp Seminar and Competition in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and has been on the faculty at Rowan University, the Sartatoga Harp Colony, and the Philadelphia International Music Festival. Kimberly currently teaches privately and at Temple University.
Kimberly Rowe attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in harp performance as a student of Alice Chalifoux.