Victoria Borisova-Ollas (born 21 December 1969, Vladivostok) is a Russian-Swedish composer who first received international recognition for her symphonic poem Wings of the Wind which won second prize in the 1998 Masterprize International Composition Competition in the UK.
[1][2] She studied with Nikolai Korndorf at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow[3] and continued her studies in composition at the Academy of Music in Stockholm and Malmö Music College.
[4] In 1997, she studied composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts at the Royal College of Music in London.
[7] Her opera The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with a libretto written by Edward Kemp, is an adaptation of the novel of that name by Salman Rushdie.
The premiere at Bridgewater Hall during the 2007 Manchester International Festival was narrated by Alan Rickman, conducted by Mark Elder, and featured a film component by Mike Figgis.