Inevitably, and despite perfect planning and rehearsal, things go wrong. What do you do? Composer \/ conductor Victoria Bond discusses handing problems with composure and a steady hand.<\/p>\n
A major force in 21st century concert music, Victoria Bond leads a dual career as composer and conductor. Her compositions have been praised by the New York Times as “powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding,” and her conducting has been called \u201cimpassioned\u201d by the Wall Street Journal and \u201cfull of energy and fervor\u201d by the New York Times.<\/p>\n
Bond has been commissioned by The American Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet, Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Festival, Houston and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras, Cleveland and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestras, Women\u2019s Philharmonic, Soli Deo Gloria, The Young Peoples\u2019 Chorus, Manhattan Choral Ensemble, Choral Society of the Hamptons and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her compositions have been performed by the Dallas Symphony, New York City Opera, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Anchorage Opera, Irish National Orchestra (RTE), Shanghai Symphony and members of the New York Philharmonic, among others.<\/p>\n
As a conductor, Ms. Bond has guest conducted the Honolulu, Buffalo, Richmond, Louisville, Albany, Anchorage, Dallas and Houston symphony orchestras; Cleveland and St. Paul chamber symphonies; Opera Carolina; Festival of Contemporary Music in Santos, Brazil; Radio Telefis Eirann in Dublin, Ireland; Center for Contemporary Opera in New York; and the Shanghai, Hunan, and Wuhan symphony orchestras and Beijing Central Opera in China.<\/p>\n
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