Victoria Cochran Xie joined Areté in the fall of 2024. Hailing from Georgia, she has been a proud alto 1 chorister since middle school. In college, she sang with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum under the direction of Andrew Clark, where she met her husband, Lijia, who also sings with Areté. While at Harvard, Victoria enjoyed singing a variety of choral music with guest conductors ranging from Sir John Eliot Gardiner to Craig Hella Johnson. During her PhD studies at the University of Chicago, she sang with the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Choir under the direction of James Kallembach.

Victoria currently lives in Thousand Oaks with her husband and their adorable mini Aussie, Mocha. She works as a postdoctoral scientist at Amgen.