Ensemble 212 - Musicians

Winner of the Leonard Rose scholarship from the Juilliard School, cellist Victoria Bass is quickly emerging as an exciting young artist. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review agrees saying, "Bass is a remarkable young talent who plays contemporary music with much tonal beauty and expressive assurance." Other critics have furthered this sentiment saying, "She played as if her heart would break" (LiveMusic-Minnesota Orchestra Magazine), "(Bass) delivered a fierce level of passion" (The Post and Courier), and calling her "Astonishingly talented" (San Antonio Express-News). As a soloist Victoria has been featured by Bargemusic, The Stone, the Society for Composers, Inc., the Foundation for Modern Music, the Music in Time series at Spoleto Festival USA, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the 180 Maiden Lane series, and on the Hatch series at Jennifer Mueller/The Works. In 2007 she gave the Texas and Maine premieres of the Berio Sequenza XIV. This season includes solo appearances with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra and the Millenium Chamber Players, on the VIM:Tribeca series and the Louisiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, and a chamber music performance presented by the New York Art Ensemble.

From 2004-2007 Victoria was a member of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, a group with who she appeared in both the US and Canada, and performed a dozen commissioned world premieres. She appears with them on a recording available on Amazon.com and itunes. Earlier this year Victoria appeared as an alumnus of the Lucerne Festival Academy in an ensemble performance conducted by Pierre Boulez. This program will be repeated at the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland) this summer. Victoria has also performed on the Klangspuren Schwaz festival (Austria), and with the East Coast Composers Ensemble, Future In REverse (FIRE), the Latin American composers consortium AltaVoz, and the Axiom Ensemble. Additionally her chamber music performances have been presented by the Neon Festival, the American Composer's Forum, New Music @ the Chelsea Art Museum, the Greenwich Music Festival, and Syzygy: New Music at Rice.

Victoria is currently a student of Darrett Adkins at The Juilliard School where she is pursuing a Master's of Music degree. She received her Bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Rice University where she studied with Norman Fischer. Victoria is also an alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy.