(American, b. New York, 1947)
Pianist, teacher and composer, she did her early training at the Dalcroze School of Music and the Manhattan Preparatory School of Music, then at Mannes College and Barnard College for undergraduate and Harvard for her Masters. She then did another BA in Composition at Columbia. She has taught at Columbia and Peabody. The summer of 1986 she taught at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado and had some works performed which had been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman holds a B.A. (cum laude and honors in music) from Barnard College, an M.A. from Harvard, and a D.M.A. from Columbia, both in music composition. Her teachers have included Otto Luening, William Sydeman, Leon Kirchner, Lukas Foss, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Jack Beeson. Silverman's work has been performed by the Baltimore Symphony (Sergiu Comissiona, cond.), the Brooklyn Philharmonic (Lukas Foss, cond.), the Greater Bridgeport Symphony (Gustav Meier, cond.), the New Orleans Philharmonic (Maxim Shostakovich, cond.), and the Aspen Music Festival. She has been a resident scholar at the Villa Serbelloni of the Rockefeller Foundation (1987), a Composers' Conference Fellow (1985), a Yaddo Fellow (1984), and a MacDowell Fellow (1982). Silverman has been a member of the Mannes College graduate studies faculty since 1991. Since September 2000 she has also been teaching at the Eugene Lang College of the New School University.
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