Victoria Jordanova was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Jordanova received her early musical training at the Belgrade Conservatory where, at age seventeen, she earned a diploma in composition, piano, and harp. After earning her Bacherlor of Arts from Michigan State University, Jordanova pursued graduate studies at the Paris Conservatory on a fellowship from the French government. While in France, she served as an Artist in Residence at the Cite Internationale des Arts. Following her studies in Paris, Jordanova studied at the Moscow Conservatory and then returned to the United States on a Langley Fellowship at New York University where she received a Master of Arts in Musicology. Seeking to recapture the spontenaeity of expression that distinguished her early forays into music, Jordanova relocated to San Francisco to pursue a career as a composer and musical improviser.