Life

Victoria Bond was born in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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, the daughter of operatic bass Philip Bond and concert pianist Jane Bond. Her grandfather was also a liturgical composer. The family later moved from California to New York

New York

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, and Bond studied piano at the Mannes School of Music with Nadia Reisenberg

Nadia Reisenberg

Nadia Reisenberg was an American pianist of Lithuanian birth.-Life and career:Born in Vilnius, Reisenberg studied under Leonid Nikolayev at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Due to the upheavals of the October Revolution, she and her family came back to Vilnius, then travelled to Warsaw and...

. She continued her studies in composition with Ingolf Dahl

Ingolf Dahl

Ingolf Dahl was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator.-Biography:Born in Hamburg, Germany to a German father and a Swedish mother, his birth name was Walter Ingolf Marcus. He studied with Philipp Jarnach at the Hochschule für Musik Köln...

 and voice with William Vennardat at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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, and in conducting with Leonard Slatkin

Leonard Slatkin

Leonard Edward Slatkin is an American conductor and composer.-Early life and education:Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet,...

 at Aspen

Aspen

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. She was accepted into the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied composition with Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...

 and conducting with teachers including Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years...

. She graduated with a doctoral degree in conducting.

Bond married Stephan Peskin in 1974. She recorded vocals with Bethany Beardslee

Bethany Beardslee

Bethany Beardslee is an American soprano particularly noted for her performances of contemporary classical music....

 and for Harry Partch

Harry Partch

Harry Partch was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation.-Early...

’s Delusion of the Fury. She also assisted film composer Paul Glass

Paul Glass

-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Glass was the son of silent film actor and film executive Gaston Glass. He was educated at the University of Southern California , and was taught by Ingolf Dahl, and Goffredo Petrassi in Rome...

 in creating filmscores for Universal

Universal Studios

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 and Metromedia Studios.

Bond became an Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1978, and in 1986 was invited to conduct the Houston Symphony for the premiere of her work Ringing. She has served as artistic director of the Bel Canto Opera Company in New York, music director and conductor of the Roanoke

Roanoke

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 Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Southwest Virginia

Virginia

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 Opera, the Harrisburg Opera and the New Amsterdam Symphony.

Works

Selected works include:

• Frescoes and Ash, 2009
• Seduction and Sanctification, Triple Concerto for flute, viola, harp and orchestra, 2007
• Sacred Sisters for violin and harp, 2005
• Woven for violin and viola, or 2 flutes, or 2 violins, 2005
• A More Perfect Union, 2002
• Ancient Keys for chamber orchestra, 2002
• Mrs. President, chamber opera, 2001
• Jasmine Flower (茉莉花; Moli Hua) for viola solo, 1999
• A Modest Proposal for tenor and orchestra, 1999
• Insects for solo electric viola, 1996
• Travels, 1994
• Dreams of Flying for string quartet, 1994
• Urban Bird, alto sax concerto, 1993
• Molly ManyBloom for soprano and string quartet, 1990
• The Frog Prince for narrator and orchestra
• What’s the Point of Counterpoint? for narrator and orchestra
• Black Light for piano and orchestra, 1988
• Great Galloping Gottschalk for American Ballet Theater, 1981
• Journal for chamber orchestra, 1981
• Trio: Other Selves for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, 1979
• Equinox for the Pennsylvania Ballet, 1976
• Conversation Piece for viola and vibraphone, 1975
• Duet for flute and viola, 1969
• Mirror, Mirror for soprano, flute and viola, 1969