Victoria Paterson, General Director

Fast Facts

  • General Director of Mostly Modern Projects

  • Broadway career spanning over 20 years with full time 1st violin chairs at My Fair Lady, Sunset Boulevard, The Addams Family & West Side Story

  • Leader of the ever-popular FAB5. Mostly Modern’s FAB5 brings a rich diversity of musicians & styles with new music on classical instruments, featuring the string quartet & percussion/drums.

Photo Credit: Lisa Mazzucco

 Victoria Paterson (General Director) is a violinist equally comfortable with classical, pop, and the healing arts. She performs everywhere from Carnegie Hall, Birdland, and Madison Square Garden to Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Today Show.

Victoria engages & hires musicians year-round, delivering vital programs to the community via senior centers, hospitals, Alzheimer’s patients, as well as ‘rush hour’ & ‘lunchtime’ programs in public spaces and parks all over New York State. She leads the ever-popular FAB5 with a great line-up of live shows. Victoria spans a 20-year career on Broadway, including full-time 1st violin positions at Lincoln Center’s My Fair Lady, The Palace Theater’s Sunset Boulevard and West Side Story, Lunt-Fontanne’s The Addams Family, and Off-Broadway: Heathers and The Thing about Men.

Victoria loves collaborating with award-winning American composer & husband, Robert Paterson. They celebrate his music with life-long projects, including the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York as well as the European edition, Mostly Modern The Netherlands.

Victoria taught at the Eastman School of Music’s Institute for Music Leadership and mentors artists with career coaching. She has a a proven track-record of success and standout winning careers for those who mentor under her. She offers one-on-ones, seminars, and residencies to The Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, the New York Youth Symphony, Broadway Backstage, Broadway Inside, Chamber Music America and many more. Paterson studied at the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University. She plays a modern Peter Greiner violin, commissioned and made for her in 2017. www.victoriapaterson.com.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: performing for Chelsea Clinton's wedding, performing for President Joe Biden, Pope Benedict XVI, Michelle Obama, Jennifer Lopez, Diane Sawyer, Nancy Pelosi, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Barbara Streisand National and European tours, with her 60-piece orchestra. Working for Sing for Hope and providing healing music to the NYC community, specifically during the pandemic at the Jacob Javits Center, right to the present all across New York.

FILM CREDITS: Secret Life of Pets, The Goldfinch, Like Father, Smash, The Wiz, The Social Network, The Celebrity Apprentice, Untouchable, The Loft, Nurse Jackie, VH1 Face the Music, Royal Pains, 666 Park Avenue, The Producers, Private Practice, Across the Universe, and So You Think You Can Dance.

TV CREDITS: PBS Special with Lang Lang, PBS Special with Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, The Beach Boys & Friends, Mr. Beast, David Letterman, Seth Meyers, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The View, Kelly & Michael, Good Morning America, The Wendy Williams Show, Rachel Ray, The Today Show.

BROADWAY CREDITS: My Fair Lady*, Sunset Boulevard*, Moulin Rouge, Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story*, The Addams Family (Concertmaster)*, On the Town, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Cinderella, Cabaret, Chicago, Wicked, Beauty & the Beast, Sweet Charity, South Pacific, Porgy & Bess, Young Frankenstein, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. 
Off-Broadway credits: Heathers*, The Thing about Men*, Giant, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
Tours: Ragtime, Titanic, Sunset Boulevard, Beauty & the Beast and My Fair Lady.

BANDS, SESSIONS & TOURING: Luis Miguel, Billy Porter, Pink Martini, Final Fantasy, Barbra Streisand, Jewel, Philip Philips, Harry Connick Jr, Chris Botti, Rufus Wainwright, Donna Summer, K.D. Lang, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Sarah Brightman, YES, Todd Rudgren, The Moody Blues, Joss Stone, A Great Big World, The Three Irish Tenors, Jennifer Lopez, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Wyclef Jean, Stephanie Mills, Jose Feliciano, Marco Antonio Solis, Trans-Syberian Orchestra, Clay Aiken, Barry Manilow, Frank Sinatra Jr., Christopher Cross, Suzanne Vega, Lou Graham, Dead Can Dance, El Divo, Il Volo, Jack Black, Richard Marx.

*Denotes chair on Broadway – all others deputy chair/sub