Victoria Cheah

Victoria Cheah is a composer and electronic musician interested in boundaries, sustained effort, and social-performance rituals. Her work has been commissioned and/or featured by ensembles and presenters including Talujon, Non-Event, Switch~ Ensemble, Line Upon Line, Han Chen, andPlay, Yarn/Wire, Wavefield Ensemble, MATA Festival, and Guerilla Opera, among others. Recordings of their music can be found on Dinzu Artefacts, New Focus Recordings, and XAS Records. Cheah currently serves as an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, as well as the director of operations of Talea Ensemble.

From 2011-2015, Cheah served as the founding executive director of Boston's new music sinfonietta Sound Icon. She has worked with ensembles and festivals including the Composers Conference, New Manhattan Sinfonietta, Argento New Music Project, Composite Festival, and Cantata Profana towards the realization of contemporary music events in New York, Boston, and Rieti, Italy. Previously, Cheah has taught music, research, and writing related courses as an instructor at Longy School of Music, Brandeis University, and as a teaching fellow at Harvard University. Cheah holds a B.A. in music from City University of New York Hunter College (Macaulay Honors College) and a Ph.D. in music composition & theory from Brandeis University.