Elicia Silverstein

Violinist Elicia Silverstein is rapidly garnering praise for her nuanced, bold and insightful performances of repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. Performing on both historical and modern instruments, she has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel at venues including Zipper Hall (Los Angeles, CA), Jordan Hall (Boston, MA) King’s College Chapel (Cambridge, UK), and the Opera House at the Tel-Aviv Performing Arts Center. Silverstein has performed chamber music with artists including Robert Levin, Ani Kavafian, Timothy Eddy, Paul Neubauer, and Bonnie Hampton. She frequently performs with her duo partner, pianist/harpsichordist Daniel Walden. Their 2014-15 season includes recitals in Los Angeles, Boston and Amsterdam, and they are scheduled to record the complete works for violin and piano of Franz Schubert on period instruments from the Cobbe Collection in Surrey, UK this March. Silverstein’s other upcoming engagements include several UK recitals with harpsichordist John McKean, with whom she was recently selected as a 2014-15 Brighton Early Music Festival young artist, as well as concerts with the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston, and with the Sweelinck Barok Orkest in Amsterdam. Silverstein was awarded a prestigious Netherlands-America Foundation Fulbright grant for 2013-2014 to study connections between 17th century stylus phantasticus music and avant-garde 20th century Italian music under the supervision of Vera Beths, Lucy van Dael and Anner Bylsma at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree as a student of Robert Lipsett and Arnold Steinhardt at The Colburn School’s Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where she was selected to perform as a soloist with the Colburn Orchestra on numerous occasions and also served as co-concertmaster from 2011-2013. Silverstein plays on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin crafted in 1856.