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Victoria Borisova-Ollas

1969– · Russian-Swedish

Victoria Borisova-Ollas was born in Vladivostok in 1969. She studied at the Central School of Music in Moscow and at the Moscow Conservatory, moved to Sweden in the early 1990s, and continued her composition studies at the Malmö Academy of Music and at the Royal College of Music in London. She came to international notice in 1998, when her orchestral piece ‘Wings of the Wind’ won second prize in the Masterprize competition in Britain. Most of her output is for orchestra: it includes two symphonies, the clarinet concerto ‘Golden Dances of the Pharaohs’, and ‘Angelus’, written for the Munich Philharmonic. For the stage she has written ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’, after Salman Rushdie’s novel, first given at the Manchester International Festival in 2007, and the opera ‘Dracula’, staged at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2017. She has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2008, and her music is published by Universal Edition.

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Sources 5

  1. Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Wikipedia Cited in Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth, with Alina Ibragimova in Mozart. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  2. Victoria Borisova-Ollas: biography, Victoria Borisova-Ollas Cited in Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth, with Alina Ibragimova in Mozart. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  3. Victoria Borisova-Ollas, MUGI: Musik und Gender im Internet, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg Cited in Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth, with Alina Ibragimova in Mozart. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  4. Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Angelus, orchestral works (booklet of BIS-2288, with the composer’s notes), BIS Records Cited in Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth, with Alina Ibragimova in Mozart. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  5. On record: Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Angelus (BIS), Arcana Cited in Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth, with Alina Ibragimova in Mozart. Accessed 8 October 2026.