2021 WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) Peoples Choice Award for Best Music Teacher, Victoria Shoemaker received a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, Illinois), where she studied classical flute and piccolo performance. Presently, she studies antique and contemporary world flutes and improvisation with Grammy-nominated flutist, Peter Phippen.

Since the release of her debut album, The Witching Hour in 2016, Victoria has continued to record and perform regularly on world flute, releasing "Apparitions, Dreams, and Imaginings" in 2021  as a collaboration album with Peter Phippen and Brian Reidinger.  Currently, Victoria continues teaching private lessons on multiple instruments at Morgan Music  including  percussion, saxophone, guitar, woodwinds, keyboard, ukulele, etc. as well as teaching consecutive 10  week beginner guitar and ukulele programs at the Veteran's Highground Memorial in Niellsville, Wisconsin. 

 

 Victoria also sings lead and backgound vocals, plays percussion, guitar, bass, flute, and saxophone in her rock and roll group known as "Virginia Steel," which performs across Wisconsin and neighboring states.