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Performing

Kimberly Rowe’s multifaceted performing career as a classical and contemporary harpist includes appearances around the globe. She has performed numerous times with The Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall, as well as at renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the China National Center for the Performing Arts, in Beijing. Additionally, Kimberly has numerous performance credits with professional ensembles throughout the Mid-Altantic, Mid-West, and Southern regions of the U.S., including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony, and many others. While residing in Brno, Czech Republic, she performed with the Brno Filmarmonie as well as the Filharmonie Bohuslav Martinů in Zlín.

As a back-up musician, Kimberly has performed frequently in Atlantic City showrooms and surrounding venues for stars such as Tony Bennett, Sarah McLachlan, Jackie Evancho, Josh Groban, Todd Rundgren, Johnny Mathis, Ben Folds, Bernadette Peters, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra Jr., Natalie Cole, and many others. She has served as resident harpist at Philadelphia’s Four Seasons Hotel, Tokyo’s Palace Hotel, and onboard the ocean liner QE2. Kimberly has been a featured performer at numerous 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.

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.

Teaching

As a nationally recognized harp instructor, Kimberly Rowe was a finalist nominee in the inaugural Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Ovation Award for music educators in 2014. A founder of the Young Artist’s Harp Seminar and Competition, she has also served on the faculty of prominent music programs such as Curtis Summerfest, the National Music Festival, and the Saratoga Harp Colony. She launched the harp program at the Music Preparatory Division of Temple University and also taught undergraduate students at Temple’s Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance. Under her direction, the  Temple Music Prep Youth Harp Ensemble has as performed by invitation at the American Harp Society National Conference in New York City, the International Festival de Harpe in Ancenis, France, the Mid-Atlantic Harp Festival in McLean, Va., the Festival de la Harpe, in Princeton, NJ., and at Commonwealth Plaza of the Kimmel Center.