Marc Silverman

“Exceptional authority and impeccable taste” described the playing of pianist Marc Silverman in The New York Times. His “richly colored sonorities” and “thrilling surges of power” have prompted critics to compare him to the legendary Josef Hofmann. Dr. Silverman has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra and chamber musician. Among his appearances were six recitals at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and seven performances in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. He has toured Taiwan, Japan and Korea performing televised concerts, conducting master classes for piano soloists and chamber musicians, as well as presenting lecture-demonstrations on the traditions and techniques of romantic interpretation. Dr. Silverman has been Chairman of the Piano Department at the Manhattan School of Music since 1989 and has coordinated piano chamber music at the school since 1985. He has taught students from over thirty countries and from every continent, and his students have been the recipients of an exceptional number of international awards and honors. In 1983, Marc Silverman founded the Carnegie Trio with two other soloists. In addition to their international touring and residencies at summer festivals, they recorded works by Beethoven, Brahms and Ravel and Copland. As a soloist, Dr. Silverman has recorded twentieth-century works in RCA’s Studio A for international release. Other recordings include Dvorak’s Piano Quintet, Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Enescu’s Piano Quartet in D Major and the Trio for Flute, Viola and Piano by Maurice Durufle. Live performances and recordings, both as a soloist and chamber musician, have been seen and heard on television and radio throughout the world. Dr. Silverman is an award winner of the Kapell International Competition, the Gina Bachauer Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition. He is frequently quoted in publication including Chamber Music America, Piano and Keyboard Magazine, The New York Times, and the Korean monthly, Eumag-Choonchu. Over the past eight years, Dr. Silverman has made numerous trips to Singapore, conducting master classes and serving as a judge for the country’s national competition. In 2000, he was named International Consultant to the Nanyang Academy, Singapore’s flagship arts institution. In the summers of 2004 and 2007, Dr. Silverman traveled to Melbourne to serve as a Visiting Artist at the Australian National Academy of Music’s Advanced Performance Program. This past November, Dr. Silverman was the subject an extensive article in Korea’s leading keyboard magazine “The Piano” which traced the trajectory of his career as well as articulating his thoughts on the relationship between technique and musicianship.