She seeks beauty through a personal musical language inspired by centuries of musical tradition, while maintaining an open approach that allows the distinctive characteristics of different styles to become a source of inspiration.

 

After completing her composition studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, she established a career shaped by collaborations with leading institutions and ensembles across Europe and North America.

 

She has recently been commissioned by the Liceu to join the Òh!pera project, creating one of the micro-operas that will premiere in 2027.

 

Most recently, she was invited by John Adams to take part in the Green Umbrella Music Series. Her work Desert Bloom was premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, performed by musicians of the LA Phil.

 

In 2025, she returned to Barcelona to receive her first commission in her hometown as part of the Canta amb l’OBC project at L’Auditori.

 

In 2024, she embarked on her first international tour and presented her first composition for solo voice and orchestra. Ein Glück Ohne Ruh’ was performed in several cities across the Netherlands and Germany with the Nederlands Studenten Orkest, culminating in a final concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

 

In 2023, her work Medusa Rehard was premiered on NPO2’s television programme Podium Klassiek, accompanied by an interview about her artistic practice.

 

Between 2022 and 2023, she was awarded the Stipendium Jonge Componist 2022, which allowed her to work for a year alongside the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. During the same period, she also contributed to the first CD by the Lillith Ensemble, dedicated exclusively to new music by women, with her work Elgdans.

 

In 2021, she was composer-in-residence with the Canadian Quatuor Bozzini as part of the Composer’s Kitchen programme. Her work ¿Friends? was premiered at the Gaudeamus Festival at TivoliVredenburg. That same year, she continued to explore performative and multisensory elements in her music, an artistic direction also present in works such as Synaesthesia, an immersive experience in which music guides the audience through the senses of smell, taste, and touch.

 

In 2020, she took part in OFFSprings, a project commissioned by Dutch National Opera & Ballet. The result was In Nabijheid, a performance exploring the possibilities of opera from a perspective of social inclusion, combining fragments of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida with voices from the company’s choir and the Afro-Surinamese choir Black Harmony.

 

In addition to the projects she has been involved in, Sílvia was awarded the first prize, the Mary Viëtor Prize, at the Alba Rosa Composition Competition, held at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 2018. In 2026, she was also awarded the Gold Medal at the Vienna International Music Competition, held at the Musikverein in Vienna.