"A composer with a sparkling individual voice"
Victoria Borisova-Ollas was born 1969 in Russia but has lived in Sweden for many years. She first achieved international recognition when her work Wings of the Wind won second prize in the Masterprize competition in 1998: the critics were ecstatic, describing her work as a piece of "sparcling sonic poetry." She uses an original and innovative vocabulary of sounds to create acoustic spaces of great beauty and intensity, capable of captivating both sophisticated ears and those of less experienced but curious.
Victoria began her musical studies at early age. After graduating first from the Central School of Music in Moscow and then from the famous Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, she continued her composition studies in Sweden at Malmö and Stockholm Music Colleges and in England at the Royal College of Music in London.
Her music is widely performed all around the world by orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Duesseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, The Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Kammarensemblen and by other orchestras, ensembles and performers. Her works have been broadcasted by Swedish Television, BBC Radio 3, Swedish Radio P2 and by other broadcasting companies in Finland, Russia, USA, Slovenia, Germany, Canada etc. Some of the pieces have been released on CD`s ( EMI, Metronome Recordings in UK, Phono Suecia, Media Artes/Chamber Sound, Musica Rediviva in Sweden).
| The Swedish Music Academy / Christ Johnson Prize for symphonic composition 2005 | |
| Masterprize International Competition for Orchestral Composition UK, London 1998 | 2nd prize |
| Konstnärsnämnden / The Council of Arts, Sweden 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 | Grants |
| STIM /The Swedish Performing Rights Society 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 | Grants |
| FST / The Swedish Composer`s Association 2000 | Grant |
| The Swedish Music Academy 1997 | Grant for studies at the Royal College of Music, London |