Victoria Bond’s passion for chamber music is evident in each of the more than 100 works she has composed in that genre. She founded Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival in 1998 to showcase living composers and their chamber works, and she continues to serve as artistic director of the annual festival in New York City.

A prolific composer, Bond has written operas, oratorios, ballets, concertos and orchestral works, as well as vocal works and keyboard compositions. She is also renowned for her operas, including Clara (about Clara Schumann, premiered at the Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival), and Mrs. President (about an 1872 candidate), as well as The Miracle of Light, The Adventures of Gulliver, and severa...