Victoria Bond

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Victoria Ellen Bond (born 6 May 1945) is an American conductor and composer in New York City.

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Early life

Victoria Bond was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of operatic bass and medical doctor Philip Bond (a vocalist with the New York City Opera) and concert pianist Jane Courtland, who studied with Bela Bartok. Her grandfather was Samuel Epstein, a composer, conductor and double bass player. Bond married Stephan Peskin in 1974.

Education

Bond attended University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California, studying voice with William Vennard and composition with Ingolf Dahl.

She received her doctorate at the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied composition with Roger Sessions and conducting with Jean Morel and Sixten Ehrling. She took masterclasses with Herbert von Karajan. She also studied with Herbert Blomstedt at Aspen Music Festival and School. While a student at Juilliard, Bond served as assistant to Pierre Boulez, Mstislav Rostropovitch and Aaron Copland. She was the first woman to be awarded a doctoral degree in Orchestral Conducting from Juilliard in 1977.

Awards

She is the recipient of the Victor Herbert Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Walter Hinrichsen Award, the Perry F. Kendig Award and the Miriam Gideon Prize. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Hollins and Roanoke Colleges, and Washington and Lee University.

Conductor

Bond was music director and conductor of Roanoke Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1995 [1] and artistic director of Opera Roanoke from 1989 to 1995. In addition, she held the following conducting and artistic positions:

She was the first American woman to conduct and record in China with the Shanghai Symphony (1994), the Central Opera (2004) and to be appointed Music Advisor to the Wuhan Symphony (1994).

Composer and performer

Bond began her professional performing career as a soprano, and was the featured soloist in the premiere performance and recording on Columbia Masterworks of Harry Partch's opera Delusion of the Fury. [2]

She has composed operas including Mrs. President about Victoria Woodhull, which premiered in 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska, [3] and Clara about the life of Clara Schumann, which premiered in 2019 at the Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival. [4]

Other operas include The Adventures of Gulliver commissioned by American Opera Project through Opera America’s grant to Female Composers (2016); The Miracle of Light commissioned by The Young Peoples Chorus of New York City and premiered by Chamber Opera Chicago (2017), [5] Sirens, commissioned by the Roger Shapiro Fund and premiered by Cygnus (2017); Travels premiered by Opera Roanoke (1995). [6]

She assisted film composer Paul Glass and Hugo Friedhofer in orchestrating and ghost-writing film scores for Universal Pictures and Metromedia Studios.

Ms. Bond is Artistic Director of Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival in New York, [7] which she founded in 1998, and is a frequent lecturer at the Metropolitan Opera Guild and has lectured for the New York Philharmonic.

Works

Selected works include:

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References

  1. ↑ "CONDUCTOR READY TO FOLLOW A DIFFERENT DRUMMER". scholar.lib.vt.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  2. ↑ "Naxos - Partch, H.: Delusion of the Fury". www.naxoslicensing.com. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  3. ↑ Dunham, Mike (2016-07-01). "Review: Opera about first woman to run for president debuts in Anchorage". Anchorage Daily News . Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  4. ↑ "Victoria Bond: Clara (UA) - Theater Baden-Baden". alt.theater.baden-baden.de. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  5. ↑ "Commissions and Premieres - new music by the Young People's Chorus of NYC, Children's Choir in New York". Young People's Chorus of NYC. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  6. ↑ "AFTER THE FIRST ACT, 'TRAVELS' IS A HUSTLER". scholar.lib.vt.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  7. ↑ "About Cutting Edge Concerts" . Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  8. ↑ "About" . Retrieved 29 January 2011.
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