Victoria King

Victoria King is a composer, writer, and music director currently studying at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. As a versatile composer and collaborator, she has experience writing for film, dance, and theatre as well as the concert hall. Her pieces have been performed and recorded by Ensemble Intercolor, the Balourdet Quartet, the Corvus ensemble, the UNCSA symphony orchestra, and Choral Arts Initiative. She has participated in Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival's Composing in the Wilderness, Choral Arts Initiative's PREMIERE|Project Festival, and the Zodiac Music Academy and Music Festival.

She also has experience in orchestrating and music directing for musical theatre. She was recently the assistant music director for UNCSA's production of Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 , the music director of UNCSA's workshop of The Robber Bridegroom, and the music director of Camel City Playhouse's Next to Normal.

She is also a member of UNCSA's ArtistCorps working at Title I schools in Winston-Salem and with the "Music Between Us" team. She and the other team members at MBU engage with elders living with dementia, primarily through music, to combat the level of social isolation they so often experience.

(photographer Sarah A. Fank)