Bristol based Victoria performs and records regularly a varied repertoire including electronic vocal, contemporary classical, experimental folk, electronic pieces, flamenco and vocal improvisation, both as a solo artist and as a member of various ensembles.

She is currently a MA Music Student at Bristol Universtiy studying voice with Joanna Morton with vocal masterclasses from Rosemary Hardy, Sarah Walker and Frances Lynch, and electronic composition.
Performances in 2012 have included Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre, BBC Radio 4's More than words festival, BBC Radio Bristol and Theo Leoevendie's Six Turkish Folk poems with the New Music Ensemble.
She is the organiser of the Contemporary Music Venture Concert Series in Bristol. Four concerts in March, May and June featuring newly commisioned work from composers performed by CoMA Bristol, The Flute Choir Bristol, The Contemporary Voice Group and post graduate students from Bristol University. Featuring works by Meredith Monk, Ligeti and John Cage.
She will be performing with Little Room Productions in their new opera 'The Wolves Descend' at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in London at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
She is writing with Chris Harper a song cycle about the lives of the Chain Making Women of Cradley Heath in the 1910s it will be performed at the Tete a Tete Opera Festival at the Riverside Studios London, The Black Country Museum, Dudley, The Wardrobe Theatre and as part of Bristol ferment. She has been awarded the University of Bristol 2012 vice chancellors initative fund prize for this project.

Ensembles 
New Music Ensemble Bristol
NME performs new works, modern classics to the highest standards, giving two lunchtime concerts a year.
 
And then we danced
Currently working on a new song cycle of original songs based around the lives of the chainmaking women living in the Black Country in the early 1900s with Chris Harper.
 
Harper Bourne
Their fresh and non traditional approach to setting both their own texts and also those of Federico Garcia Lorca has resulted in a theatrical and spellbinding collection of songs.
They have appeared on BBC Radio Leicester, Demon FM, played at The Peepul Centre, The Musician, The Hub, The Y Theatre, The Phoenix Arts Centre, Market Bosworth Festival, Strawberry Fields Festival and Cafe Bruxelles where they had a 8 week residency.

Quadelectronic
A regular performer at the monthly free improvisation evening Quadelectronic (based at Quad studios, Leicester) since September 2008, Victoria has revelled in the freedom afforded at such an event and has used the opportunity to experiment with voice, flute, piano, and electronics, with a variety of co-improvisers. A collection of highlights is currently being organised for release. This has resulted in many a spin off collaborations with Jim Tetlow, Endgame and Chris Conway.
Victoria has built on these improvised experiences by composing her own music that involves improvisation within structural boundaries, using words, creating videos and artwork to be included in live performance, using the technology available to devise unique pieces for solo voice and for voice and electronics.

Compositions include the album ‘Inside the edges’. The title piece uses four haikus depicting winter, spring, summer and autumn, inspired by four very personal and contrasting visual events. A versatile work it can be performed in with a variety of line ups be it live video, with voice and electronics, and also with the additions of cajon, flute, and piano.

Reviews
More the words festival March 2012, Bristol
'You were a joy to work with, thanks for all your hard work for the festival you were amazing.'
Nicki.Ledgard A&M Factual BBC Bristol

'It was lovely to meet you and you were fantastic both days - I really enjoyed it and then I really enjoyed it again. After your session, I was almost hugged by a man who said it had been such a rich experience hearing you, and the other Sound Adventurers.'
Kirsten Lass, Executive Producer, A+M Factual, Bristol

'Their songs had a distinctly Spanish flavour; in a set played with vitality and artistry, Victoria Bourne was accompanied by Chris Harper and Jim Tetlow.  Dec 2010
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'Thanks so much -what a brilliant performance by both of you - everyone was talking about how amazing you were fantastic'
Polly Tuckett, Short Fuse Fiction 2010

'you all made my night for me , what a fantastic gig, everybody has been commenting on it.
Harjinder ohbi, Leicester Mercury 2010

'Victoria Bourne and Chris Harper's brilliant flamenco and song mix, some really jaw-dropping guitar/vocal work, anyone who hasn't experienced this in the last three weeks has been SERIOUSLY MISSING OUT'
Leicester Music Scene 2010

'Thanks very much for playing, you sing beautifully and Chris is very talented on the guitar you compliment each other very well'
this was a beautiful evening, and if you didnt come you really have missed out, these 2 are amazing local talent!!
Leicester Music Scene 2010

Lush beds of guitar sit behind a voice to die for with this bunch. The singer Victoria Bourne is highly reminiscent of Beth Gibbons from Portishead in this reviewer’s humble opinion.
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'They are some mighty guitar twiddling and vocal finery, courtesy of Chris Harper and Victoria Bourne. Bourne's vocal is stunning in the Thom Yorke/ Matt Bellemy vein. She makes you really understand how the voice can be used as an instrument.'
Reference and full review:
http://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/reviews2007mus.html

Shortlisted for Best Musical Event at Buxton Fringe Festival 2007.

"Vanity Press are a collective from London, Victoria Bourne, Chris Harper. Combining samples, woodwind instruments, piano, guitars, deep percussion and haunting vocals to fashion a fascinating, luscious soundscape. Bourne’s unique vocals. Bjork, Patti Smith and PJ Harvey are the obvious comparisons. Like a female Nick Cave, her voice oozes beauty and pain in equal measure, grabbing the listener from the first note, it’s a voice that is impossible to ignore or forget.
Reference and full interview on:
http://www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk/2007/04/vanity-press-vanity-press-ep-album.html