Virginia’s performance training has been in classical piano, and has included seven years of study with University of Toronto professor Boyanna Toyich through the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music, as well as with Marina Mdivani at McGill University. Her real love, however, has always been composition, and from a young age she began studying harmony and music theory through the Royal Conservatory. At McGill, which boasts one of the North America’s finest music schools, she completed a Bachelor of Music in Composition, graduating cum laude and with a citation for Outstanding Achievement in Composition. In addition to her extensive studies in classical composition and orchestration, Virginia spent several years working within McGill’s renowned Digital Sound Composition Studio on electroacoustic composition. Following her time at McGill, Virginia went on to complete a Master’s in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games at the Berklee College of Music’s Valencia campus – a program recognized worldwide for its unparalleled hands-on and state-of-the-art instruction.
Virginia was born to compose. Her music draws on her own eclectic influences, fusing rich, classical orchestrations with electronics and jazz, and extended techniques to create a sound that is uniquely her own and which is tailored to suite each project.