Australian born Victoria Miskolczy has been Associate Principal Violist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1989 and a regular member of the Pasadena Symphony since 1988. She has also performed with the Oregon Bach Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival and the Hollywood Bowl, Sydney (Australia), Pacific, and Long Beach Orchestras.

Her many local chamber music credits include performances for the South Bay Chamber Music Society, Pacific Serenades, Camerata Pacifica, Capitol Ensemble, Los Angeles Chamber Orhestra’s Conversations Series and Musicales, and on UCLA’s Bruman Series.

With chamber ensembles, she has performed many times on KMZT’s Sundays Live from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has also performed solo recitals throughout Australia (two of which were broadcast on national radio, ABC-FM) as well as throughout the United States and Canada.

In addition to doing orchestral, chamber and solo work, Victoria is a commercial musician and has played on hundreds of motion picture soundtrack scores for composers such as John Williams, James Horner, and Jerry Goldsmith and on recordings with such popular artists as Barbra Streisand, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.

Victoria is also a part-time faculty member at the University of Southern California and has served as assistant to Donald McInnes. She has studied at the Sydney Conservatory, The Academy of the West (in Santa Barbara), the Menuhin Academy in Gstaad, the Banff Music Festival, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, University of Michigan and the University of Southern California. Victoria was a prizewinner in the 1988 Lionel Tertis Competition at the Isle of Man and a finalist in the 1987 ASTA Competition. Her teachers have included Donald McInnes, Karen Tuttle, Raphael Hillyer, and Alex Todicescu.

photo Michael Miller