Victoria Bond

New York Philharmonic Mahler 6th Symphony pre-concert talk 10/3/2010 Mahler expert and enthusiast William Zucker reviews Victoria Bond's pre-concert talk for the New York Philharmonic's Mahler #6 on September 30, 2010 Read More...

Music review: The Harry Partch Ensemble at LACMA 9/21/2010 For many years, Los Angeles County Museum of Art was a go-to spot and a regular haunt for contemporary music in the Southland. A major change in programming policy sent this circus packing, seeking out other, mostly downtown venues. But there remain faint glimmers of the old new music glory in the Museum’s Bing Theatre, via LACMA’s occasional concerts ostensibly linked to its art exhibitions. Read More...

A Clara Schumann opera is being created at the Brahmshaus 9/20/2010 Kurstadt-Magazin “It is so wonderful, so inspiring, here at this place” It could not be more perfect: scenes for an opera with the title “Clara: The life and Loves of Clara Schumann” are presently created in the Brahmshaus studio. The composer and conductor Victoria Bond and the librettist Barbara Zinn Krieger, both from New York, are spending a working vacation at the Brahmshaus studio, 85 Maximilianstrasse, in Lichtenthal. Read More...

November 6 - 10 Victoria Bond delivers pre-concert lecture for the New York Philharmonic 11/5/2009 Bond will lecture on Mozart's Symphony #38 (Prague); Beethoven's Creatures of Prometheus and Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony in the Helen Hull Room at Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center, NY. on Thursday Nov 5,6:30pm;Friday Nov 6, 7:00pm;Saturday Nov 7,7:00pm;Tuesday Nov 10, 6:30pm Read More...

New Works 10/13/2009 "Peculiar Plants" for harpsichord or piano will soon be available from C.F. Peters "How Brer Raccoon Outsmarted the Frogs" is now available from Theodore Presser "Samba" for flute and piano is now available from Subito Music "Batucada" for solo flute is available from Protone Music Clara Schumann is the subject of a new opera with music by Victoria Bond and libretto by Barbara Zinn Krieger. Bond has been awarded a stipendium from the Brahmshausgesellschaft and will spend the month of May 2010 in Baden-Baden Germany working on the music. Scenes from the opera will be presented on Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2010 in Symphony Space.

"The Indispensable Man" with script by Dr. Myles Lee will be scored for narrator and band. Lee has crafted a dramatic and moving portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's using the President's own words. Bond will be underscoring this text with music inspired by the big-band era.

"The Page Turner" is a humerous work that Bond is writing for pianist Kathleen Supove. The work will be premiered during the 2009-2010 season.

Storyteller Bill Gordh and Bond are teaming up to write a treatment of one of the Brer Rabbit stories scored for banjo and small ensemble.

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Victoria Bond's music at the Music Festival of the Hamptons 7/24/2009 Flutist Sato Moughalian and harpist Bridget Kibbey will perform Victoria Bond's composition "Ruth" from her work "Sacred Sisters" on Friday July 24th at the Music Festival of the Hamptons. Read More...

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2009 4/2/2009 Read More...

February 20, 2010 Dreams of Flying premiered by the Queens Symphony The string orchestra version of "Dreams of Flying" will receive its premiere by the Queens Symphony on February 20, 2010. Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts. Read More...

July 27 Performance of Bond Composition in Millennium Park Bond's Composition Jing Zhong Bao Guo for erhu and pipa will be performed under the auspices of the Chinese Fine Arts Society in Millennium Park in the Pritzker Pavilion. Read More...

Victoria Bond's music at the Music Festival of the Hamptons Flutist Sato Moughalian and harpist Bridget Kibbey perform "Ruth" from "Sacred Sisters" by Victoria Bond at the Music Festival of the Hamptons.