Patricio Da Silva
In 2017, “Schlinkepuetz - eine Monsteroper”, a theater production for children with music by Patricio “met the laughing-nerve of the audience with pinpoint precision. Great opera, of course“, said the German critic, Matthias Boll, Nürnberger Nachrichten. It has been performed numerous times since then always to the most enthusiastic audience receptions.
In 2016, Patricio da Silva’s “Music for Violin and Harp” was selected to represent the American Harp Society with the Crimson Duo at the International Harp Conference in Hong Kong.
Since 2011, Patricio da Silva’s Guitar Concerto has been featured several times on the syndicated radio show Classical Guitar Alive, and each time broadcast on over 250 classical music stations around the world.
In 2009, Patricio da Silva was honored to have his work “Three Pieces for Solo Piano” performed by Tzimon Barto during the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, in a benefit concert with Maestro Christoph Eschenbach for the acquisition of the manuscript of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations by the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany.
In 2008, Patricio da Silva was awarded the II International Barto Prize (juried by Tobias Picker, composer, USA, Tzimon Barto, pianist, USA, Wolfgang Rihm, composer, Germany, Bright Cheng, composer, China and USA, and Marc-André Dalbavie, composer, France) for this work “Three Movements for Solo Piano”
In 2003, Patricio da Silva’s work for 4 mechanical pianos won the Ojai Music Festival Prize for young composers among candidates from all the major universities in California, a competition juried by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steven Stucky, and Ernest Fleischmann, the LA Phil’s legendary Executive Director.
Festivals and concert halls where Patricio da Silva’s music has been performed include, among others, Tanglewood, Ravinia, The Ojai Music Festival, and Aspen Music Festival in the USA, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Bayerischen Theatertage, Stadttheater Fürth, Ruhr Festival, Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal, Stadttheater Wels, Fruchthalle in Kaiserlauten (Germany), London Festival of American Music (UK), LACMA (Los Angeles), Auditorio de Galicia (Spain), and Cistermúsica.
