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Composer Victor Tswei is attracted to sounds that are complex, boisterous, and raw. Victor’s music captures his bold expression through his unique personal sensibility in literatures, histories, linguistics, zoologies, and sounds in nature. He fuses so many musical and extra-musical influences to create a sonic experience so potently refreshing, and at the same time honest and tender, living fully in the internal drama of sounds.

Praised as “fundamentally musical” by the Olga and Paul Menn Foundation at the University of Chicago, Victor’s music has been performed in both America and Europe. Most recently, Victor's string quartet Amidst a flock of sleepless birds was premiered by Mivos Quartet in Valencia, Spain. His sinfonietta for 16 players, sauterelles des étoiles/star hoppers, was workshopped and premiered by Ensemble Modern, during their special residency in Houston. Excerpts of Victor’s chamber opera, Otto, Otto (based on the modern tragedy of Otto Warmbier), was premiered during the Opera Etude workshop at the Peabody Institute in 2023.

Victor has attended TUTTI Festival, Impulse New Music Festival, soundSCAPE, Lake George Music Festival, and Stanford Summer SuperCollider Workshop, etc. Victor's pieces have been performed by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral Quartet, Fabrik Quartet, Peabody Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, and ~Nois. He is working on a song cycle for tenor and piano commissioned by the Presser Foundation, using poems of teachers who painfully respond to school shootings.

Victor is fascinated by electronics, and has composed extensively for both fixed media and interactive live electronics, including The frogs don’t sing red (2024) for 72-channel electronics and live-controlled lights, Etude No. 2 (2023) for self-designed noise-generating keyboard, Echidna Remembers (2022) for bassoon and interactive Max patch, and Onyx is the Color during the Silence of Järvenpää (2021) for flute with fixed media.

Victor is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University. He holds a Master of Music (MM) in composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor and Master of Arts (BA/MA) joint degree in Music and the Humanities from the University of Chicago. Victor has studied composition with Anthony Brandt, Shih-hui Chen, Ashkan Behzadi, Felipe Lara, Sky Macklay, Augusta Read Thomas, Hans Thomalla, and Courtney Bryan, and he has taken courses in computer music with Sam Pluta and Bryan Jacobs. Victor has attended master classes, lessons, and seminars taught by Georg Friedrich Haas, Clemens Gadenstätter, Chaya Czernowin, Michael Hersch, Hector Parra, Daniel D'Adamo, Eric Nathan, Du Yun, Nina Young, Nico Muhly, Christopher Theofanidis, Joel Puckett, Nicola LeFanu, Missy Mazzoli, and Dai Fujikura.

As a professional singer (tenor-baritone), Victor participated in many premieres and performances of contemporary choral music. In 2024, Victor recorded Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light with DACAMERA of Houston and Houston Chamber Choir. Victor performed works by contemporary composers like James MacMillan, Tim Watts, David Lang, Craig Hella Johnson, Jonathan Dove, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir with the Peabody NEXT Ensemble and the Emmanuel Episcopal Church Choir in Baltimore.

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