Eric Silberger
Violin
Management:
Spain
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Portugal
Artist
Virtuoso violinist Eric Silberger is a prize winner of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in 2011.
His performances have been described by critics as “spine-tingling…astonishing” (The Guardian), “dazzling virtuoso playing” (The Washington Post), “impeccable level of playing, a wonderful musician” (Heather Kurzbauer, The Strad), and “ ….he has got everything in his favour, technique, composure and personality. We are on the eve of a great soloist” (El Pais, Spain).
Eric has performed as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and around the world, including solo performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Mariinsky Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Chamber Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, London Philharmonia, Danish National Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica de México, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, among others. Conductor collaborations include Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Dimitri Kitajenko, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Donald Runnicles, Robin Ticciati, and others. He has appeared at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Louvre in Paris, the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, The Moscow International House of Music in Russia, Shanghai Grand Theatre in China, Royal Festival Hall in London, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, the National Arts Centre in Canada, and more. Among numerous television and radio appearances in the United States, Asia, and Europe, he was featured on Radio France, STV in China, KBS in Korea, and WQXR, WFYI, FOX 59, WISH-TV, and NPR, among others.
An avid chamber musician, Eric frequently performs chamber music internationally. He also has a special collaboration with bandoneonist and composer JP Jofre and the JP Jofre Hard Tango Chamber Band.
Eric received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School. Mentors have included Glenn Dicterow, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Robert Mann, and Dorothy Delay, among others. He was also mentored by Maestro Lorin Maazel.
Eric plays on a rare J.B. Guadagnini violin from 1757 on generous loan from the Si-Yo Music Society Foundation Sau-Wing Lam collection.
Repertoire
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonatas y Patritas
Violin Concerto A minor BWV 1041
Violin Concerto E major BWV 1042
Johannes Brahms
Integral de sonatas
Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77
Double Concerto A-minor Op. 102
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto Op. 14
Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto no. 2 Sz. 112
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op. 26
Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major Op. 46
Jules Conus
Violin Concerto E minor Op. 1
Antonin Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53
Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto B minor Op. 61
Aleksandr Glazunov
Concierto para violín en La menor Op. 82
Károly Goldmark
Violin Concerto A minor Op. 28
Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto no. 1 C major
Édouard Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concertos no. 3 in G major K. 216
Violin Concertos no. 4 in D major K. 218
Violin Concertos no. 5 in A major K. 219
Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major K. 364
Carl Nielsen
Violin Concerto Op. 33
Niccolò Paganini
24 Caprichos
Violin Concerto no. 1 Op. 6
Serguei Prokófiev
Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major Op. 19
Violin Concerto no. 2 in G minor Op. 63
Dmitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor Op. 77
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 47
Igor Stravinski
Violin Concerto in D
Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto Op. 35
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons
Henri Vieuxtemps
Violin Concerto no. 4 in D minor Op. 31
Violin Concerto no. 5 in A minor Op. 37
William Walton
Violin Concerto
Henryk Wieniawski
Violin Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp minor Op. 14
Violin Concerto no. 2 in D minor Op. 22
Reviews
Mundo Clásico
“A new star is to be added to the 'Walk of Fame' of classical music: violinist Eric Silberger's charisma, unusual security and mastery are the threads that tie him to virtuosos such as Paganini and Sarasate."
Bachtrack
“Soloist Eric Silberger played stylishly, with an assertive, arresting sound, employing generous vibrato. His brief first movement cadenza, full of trills and double-stopping, was dispatched with supreme confidence and panache.”
www.classical.net
“He played the concerto in what many would consider an old-styled way – and in fact there is no need to imagine anything negative with that: warm, big, unaffected, firmly rooted within the orchestra, with an effective brief cadenza of his own, this was magnificent violin playing.”
El País
"(…) he has got everything in his favour, technique, composure and personality. We are on the eve of a great soloist"
Discography
Timeless Fauré – Brahms Violin Sonatas
Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Johannes Brahms