Victoria Frances Young/ Music

Victoria Frances Young is an international award-winning pianist, composer, performer, and multimedia creator whose work combines classical virtuosity with Chinese operatic and musical idioms, electronic sound, music theater, and rock energy. Her artistic practice spans concert music, electroacoustic work, staged multimedia projects, and opera, often drawing on astrophysics, science fiction, fantasy, and Chinese-diaspora cultural identity. Her original Piano Concerto was premiered by pianist Anna Laakso and the Lapland Chamber Orchestra under John Storgårds at the 2024 ISCM World New Music Days in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. In 2026, Young won the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Leah Reid Electroacoustic and Music in Technology Prize for her operatic fixed media work, Breaking News. Breaking News was also selected for presentation at Knob Detox 2026, a colloquium in digital music and science, in Curitiba, Brazil. As a pianist, Young has appeared as concerto soloist with ensembles including the Danube Symphony Orchestra, Midland-Odessa Symphony, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Nevada Chamber Orchestra, Henderson Symphony Orchestra, and UMKC Conservatory Orchestra. She is an alumna of the LA Philharmonic Associate Composer Program and holds degrees from the Peabody Institute and the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She will begin a DMA in composition at the Hartt School of Music in fall 2026.