<![CDATA[Victoria Bond Composer: News]]> http://www.victoriabond.com 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. Copyright 2009 Victoria Bond <![CDATA[Victoria Bond’s New CD]]> Dear Friends,

I’m excited to share my new CD with you. There are five new works performed by the following amazing soloists: harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper, violinists Renee Jolles and Sheila Reinhold, harpist Susan Jolles, violist Daniel Panner, clarinetists John Bruce Yeh and Teresa Reilly, erhu player Wang Guowei and pipa player Yang Wei. The compositions explore a wide range of subjects, including the humorous harpsichord suite, Peculiar Plants, with brief poems by Kenneth Cooper and me preceding each movement; Sacred Sisters, on three biblical women, Bridges, for two clarinets and Chinese erhu and pipa, Jasmine Flower, a set of variations on a Chinese folksong, and Woven inspired by the weavings of Jack Lenor Larsen.

Here is a link to the Albany Record website where you can purchase it!

 

Photo by Brian F. Call

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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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