Victoria Bond

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Victoria Bond is the only woman composer/conductor to receive commissions from major organizations and also hold music director positions with leading ensembles. Her extensive catalog includes works written for the Houston, Shanghai, and Richmond Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, American Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and the Audubon String Quartet, among others. She was recently honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Walter Hinrichsen Award, established by the C.F. Peters Corporation for the publication of a work by a gifted composer. As a conductor, she has led more than a dozen major orchestras and opera companies throughout the U.S., plus several in China. In every genre she undertakes, from opera to chamber music, her consummate musicianship serves to enrich a musical language that is beautifully crafted and deeply expressive. Born in Los Angeles into a family of professional musicians – her grandfather was a liturgical composer, her mother a concert pianist, and her father an operatic bass – Victoria Bond began her musical training with piano pieces by Bartók, with whom her mother had studied in Hungary. She began to improvise while still a pre-schooler, “making up stories on the piano” and committing them to memory. As a young child she moved with her family to New York and entered the preparatory program at the Mannes School of Music, studying piano with Nadia Reisenberg. At the University of

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