Vanessa studied at the „Royal Collage of Music“ in London (David Hockings), the „Musikhochschule in Lübeck“ (Johannes Fischer) and completed her master’s degree at the “Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst“ (Marta Klimasara, Klaus Dreher and Jürgen Spitschka).
As a soloist Vanessa Porter combines current works with improvisation, electronics and the performing arts and collaborates with renowned composers such as Georges Aperghis, Zeynep Gedizlioglu or Jennifer Walshe and Ensembles such as Ensemble Modern and Ascolta Ensemble.
After various successful competitions, she will perform as soloist of the ECHO-Rising Stars in the most renowned European concert halls for the concert season 22/23.