Victor Liva is in his fifth season as Music Director of the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra.

Victor Liva began violin studies at the age of eight with his father, Ferdinand Liva, a well-acclaimed conductor and violinist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania region.  He has studied violin with accomplished musicians, such as Dr. Min Soo Chang, Helen Kwalwasser, Odin Rathnam, and Ryan Kho.  He holds degrees from Wilkes University, Temple University, and the University of South Carolina, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting under the tutelage of Donald Portnoy.  

Dr. Liva has conducted various youth, college, and professional orchestras, including the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras of the Encore Music Camp of Pennsylvania, the Wilkes University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the Sinfonia Youth Orchestra, the Scottsdale Symphony, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, and is the former Director of Orchestras at Northern Arizona University.  He has conducted festivals in Arizona, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.  

Dr. Liva has served as assistant concertmaster of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, and is a former member of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, the Harrisburg Symphony, the Haddonfield Symphony, Augusta Symphony, Augusta Opera, Philadelphia Virtuosi, and many other orchestras.  

Dr. Liva is currently on the conducting staff at the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, and is serving as Orchestra Director and Coordinator of String Studies at Cleveland State University.