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Victoria Jordanova is a composer, harpist and media artist. She “has a tightly controlled focus to her work, a singularity of vision” (NewMusicBox Magazine, 2005) all while melding experimental techniques, electronics and improvisation with her classical music education. An international career, the San Francisco and New York alternative avant-garde, as well as contemporary politics and culture informs Jordanova’s music world. Her works are “strange and fascinating, very personal and delicate, full of great imagination” (Jan de Kruijff Musicalifeiten, Netherland, 2017) and yet her music remains “very beautiful in the traditional sense” (Tim Page, New York Newsday,1994). Jordanova has released six albums on CRI, Innova and Arpaviva labels. CRI included her music in the  anniversary anthology release of American music, “Forty Years of Discovery”. In 2002, Jordanova founded the Los Angeles based independent music and media label Arpaviva Recordings. She has performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall (NY), MOMA, LACMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, Experimental Intermedia, NY and other venues nationally and internationally.

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Victoria Jordanova is a composer, harpist and media artist. She has a tightly controlled focus to her work while melding experimental techniques, electronics and improvisation with her classical music education; described as "a singularity of vision...” by NewMusicBox Magazine. Jordanova's music is informed by an international career, the San Francisco and New York alternative avant-garde music environment, as well as today's contemporary politics and culture. Jordanova released six albums on CRI, Innova and Arpaviva labels. CRI included her music in the  anniversary anthology release of American music, “Forty Years of Discovery”. In the United States she has performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall (NY), MOMA, LACMA, Yerba Buena Forum, and other venues. Her large-scale multidisciplinary work Panopticon was granted by the San Francisco Arts Commission. Abroad she was awarded residence in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and composer-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy. Jordanova has performed at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Gubbio Music Festival (Italy), Festival Gargilesse (France), and Bogliasco Foundation recital (Genoa, Italy). Her work is described as “strange and fascinating, very personal and delicate, full of great imagination” by Jan de Kruijff , Musicalifeiten - Netherland, and “still very beautiful in a traditional sense” by Tim Page, New York - Newsday. In 2002 Jordanova founded Arpaviva Recordings, a Los Angeles based independent music and media label. 

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Victoria Jordanova is a Serbian born American composer, harpist and media artist. Described as "a singularity of vision...” by NewMusicBox Magazine, she has a tightly controlled focus on her work all while melding experimental techniques, electronics and improvisation with her classical music education. Jordanova's music is informed by an international career, the San Francisco and New York alternative avant-garde music environment, as well as contemporary politics and culture. Jordanova released six albums on CRI, Innova, and Arpaviva labels; CRI included her music in the anniversary anthology release of American music, “Forty Years of Discovery”. In the United States she has performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall (NY), MOMA, LACMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco, CNMATat UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, Mills College, Oakland, CA, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, Experimental Intermedia (NY), the Knitting Factory (NY), and other venues. Her large-scale multidisciplinary work Panopticon was granted by the San Francisco Arts Commission. She was awarded composer-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy as well as maintaining a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris, for several years. Jordanova has performed at Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Gubbio Music Festival (Italy), Festival Gargilesse (France), and Bogliasco Foundation (Genoa, Italy). Her work is described as “strange and fascinating, very personal and delicate, full of great imagination” ( Jan de Kruijff - Musicalifeiten, Netherland, 2017) and “unsettling, cathartic, and yet still very beautiful in the traditional sense.” (Tim Page, New York Newsday, 1994).  

Jordanova’s compositions were performed by the vanguard 21c performers such as the California EARUnit (LA), Bang on the Can All Stars (NY), San Francisco Creative Voices, Zeitgeist, Minneapolis, pianists Jenny Q Chai, Anthony DeMare, Michiko Saiki, percussionist Amy Knoles, oboist Libby Van Cleve, flutist Patricia Kaczmarczyk. In addition to that, her works were premiered at the World Harp Congress in Dublin, Ireland, at CNMAT at UC Berkeley, Zakros Interarts New Music Theatre and Yerba Buena Forum in San Francisco, and Walter Reed Auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York. 

Much of Jordanova's creative work is dedicated to harp, its performance practices, techniques and repertoire. Her 1997 album Dance to Sleep, featuring her works for amplified concert pedal harp with different electronic modules applied to each piece, was published in CRI's Emergency Music series. Jordanova received critical acclaim “for having brought harp into the 21st century” while “creating sound spaces and dimensions yet unexplored through research and conscious use of electro acoustic techniques” (Classique Info Disque, 2007). 
 
On a scholarship from the French government, Jordanova resided for several years at the Cité International des Arts. During that time she studied harp with Jacqueline Borot, professor at the Conservatoire National de Paris. Her first teacher was Josip Pikelj, professor at the Music Academy of Belgrade University, and principal harpist of the Belgrade opera. While perfecting her orchestral playing skills in various symphonic orchestras in Michigan, Victoria Jordanova received a Bachelor of Arts in harp performance from Michigan State University where she studied with Lauralee Campbell. She holds a Masters of Arts in Musicology from New York University. While in New York Jordanova was an adjunct faculty at the NYU department of Music and Technology, and harp faculty at the Greenwich House Music School.

In 2002 Jordanova founded Arpaviva Recordings, a Los Angeles based independent music and media label. 

CONTACT: info@arpaviva.org