KiMani Bridges Composer
KiMani (Key-Mahn-ee) Bridges is a composer and flutist from Louisville, Kentucky. She has been commissioned, performed, and premiered by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, and many others. Bridges has performed at venues including Auer Hall at Indiana University, Bird Hall at the University of Louisville, and the Kentucky Center for the Arts. In addition, KiMani has participated in bespoken, the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival, and is a 2019-20 Luna Composition Lab fellow. In addition, she was awarded the G. Schirmer Prize in 2020 and received an honorable mention from the 2022 ASCAP Morton Gould Composer Awards. Bridges earned her B.M. in composition with a flute concentration from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in 2024. KiMani will be pursuing her masters in composition as a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship at The Juilliard School.