Silvia de Maria
Biography
Silvia de Maria graduated in viola da gamba and musical pedagogy at the Early Music Center of the Geneva Conservatory (Switzerland) in the class of Guido Balestracci. She also attended to classes with Marianne Muller, Paolo Pandolfo and Wieland Kuijken. Previously she graduated in piano with Rocco De Vitto and viola da gamba with Bruno Re at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, in Rome.
She performed in chamber and orchestral ensembles, both as a soloist and continuo performer, in the most prestigious concert halls in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Romania, Estonia, Hungary, Norway, and Japan.
Baroque Music Festivals in which she performed:
♣ Alter Musik in Herne
♣ Festival dʼAmbronay
♣ Festival musical de Namur
♣ Festival Oude Muziek di Utrecht
♣ Festival Resonanzen
♣ Nuova Consonanza
♣ Sagra Malatestiana
♣ Haapsalu Early Music Festival
♣ Festival Muzica veche Timisoara
Musical Ensembles with which she collaborated:
♦ Ensemble Cappella mediterranea (Leonardo Garcia-Alarcòn)
♦ Ensemble Les Paladins (Jérôme Correas)
♦ Ensemble Arte Musica (Francesco Cera)
♦ Ensemble of contemporary music Algoritmo (Marco Angius)
& lʼArsenale (Filippo Perocco)
♦ Ensemble Cantatio (John Duxbury)
♦ Ensemble of viols Mare Nostrum (Andrea De Carlo)
♦ Ensemble Musica Antiqua Latina (Giordano Antonelli)
♦ Ensemble Melpomen (Conrad Steimann e Arianna Savall)
♦ Ensemble Festa rustica (Giorgio Matteoli)
♦ Ensemble Concerto de’ Cavalieri (Marcelo Di Lisa)
♦ Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera (Rinaldo Alessandrini)
She recorded for Arcana, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Dynamic, Tactus, Stradivarius, Digressione Music, Claves labels and BBC, ORF, Radiotre, and Espace2.
Passionately fond of pedagogy, since 2008 she has enthusiastically devoted herself to teaching viol. In the 2018/2019 school year, she taught viol at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Nicola Sala, in Benevento. She currently teaches viola da gamba at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Ottorino Respighi, in Latina.