Morgan Kibby is a classical pianist, cellist, producer and vocalist. Kibby grew up studying privately, performing in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera House as well as the Marin Theater Company, a ...Show More
Morgan Kibby is a classical pianist, cellist, producer and vocalist. Kibby grew up studying privately, performing in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera House as well as the Marin Theater Company, and soloing with orchestra internationally throughout her youth.As a member of M83 for 8 years, Kibby wrote, played keyboards and sang on two M83 albums and tour cycles (Saturdays=Youth & "Hurry Up We're Dreaming"). The culmination of this partnership was her first platinum single with "Midnight City", a Grammy nomination and headlining the Hollywood Bowl.As a writer, producer and performer, Kibby has gone on to co-write with Panic! at the Disco on their platinum and Grammy nominated 2016 album "Death of a Bachelor" and 2018's "Pray For the Wicked", release solo material under the moniker White Sea, remix over 20 tracks from The Weeknd to Lorde, and sing on trailers for films such as "Harry Potter" and "Lady In the Water". She has been described by Rolling Stone as "epic and ardent," while LA Weekly coined her "LA's renaissance woman of pop."In 2015 however, Kibby re-focused on projects outside of traditional pop recording. She scored the critically acclaimed French film "Bang Gang", which premiered to high praise in the new Platform competition series at Toronto International Film Festival and the British Film Institute in London. Bang Gang went on to win the Jury Prize, Youth Prize and Best Original Score Award at Les Arcs European Film Festival in France in December 2015.2016 saw Kibby collaborating with chef Craig Thornton of Wolvesmouth on his most recent Lucy Walker directed documentary for The New Yorker on Amazon, and contributing score and sound design to his newest art installation which opened in March at MOCA in Los Angeles. Kibby was shortly after selected as a 2016 Sundance Composer Lab fellow, spending two weeks at the iconic Skywalker Sound in Marin County.2017 marked White Sea's first foray into T.V., scoring "2 Sentence Horror Story", as well as the documentary series "Finding Genius" on National Geographic. In 2018 she contributed vocal production to David Campbell's most recent score for "Finding Fellini", scored the upcoming documentaries "Interior Motives" & "The Human Element" acquired by Amazon, as well as two upcoming features "The Amaranth" and Eva Husson's second film, "Girls of the Sun" which was selected for the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. She later scored Oscar nominated director David Darg's new short documentary "Fear Us Women" which went on to be nominated for an Emmy.She most recently finished scores for "Treehouse", an installment of the Into The Dark series from Blumhouse / Hulu, as well as the indie feature "The Short History of the Long Road" directed by Ani Simon Kennedy, set to premiere at Tribeca 2019. Hide
