Growing up in Christchurch, Victoria began her viola studies with Elizabeth Rogers in Christchurch. She completed a Bachelor of Music Degree with Elizabeth Morgan in Brisbane in 1985, was a member of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra for five years and also played briefly in the Melbourne Symphony before going to Germany in 1991. Victoria studied at the Munich Musikhochschule for two years with Professor Hariolf Schlichtig. Over the next eight years she was engaged under contract by the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, and most extensively with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with whom she undertook many tours in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A .She met her husband Martin, also a musician, whilst working in Frankfurt.
Victoria returned to NZ in 2001 , first living in the Motueka area, and then moving with her family to Wellington in 2007. She has been Section Leader Viola with Orchestra Wellington since 2008 and was a regular casual player with the NZSO until her appointment in 2014. She has two teenage daughters and enjoys travel, crafts and being anywhere in nature.