About
Sean Robert Silva is a German / American guitarist and composer based in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the 28th Siegburg Composition Competition, Klangspektrum BW, the Baden-Württemberg Foundation Scholarship 2013 / 14 as well as a scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg 2021, he has also been broadcast on the German public radio station SWR2 (Südwestrundfunk).
His works have i.a. been premiered at the MDR Musiksommer (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) and the 23. Durlacher Orgelnacht. His compositions are available from the publishers "edition 49" or "ELGO Music Publications / Louis Ignatius Gall Stichting".
He studied in San Francisco, Trossingen and Karlsruhe and also received additional support and inspiration through various masterclasses with many of the leading guitarists / composers of our time, including Stephen Goss, Markus Hechtle, William Kanengiser, Hubert Käppel, Pavel Steidl, Meng Su, Scott Tennant and Andrew York.
Teachers:
- Boris Bagger
- Anthony Emanuelli
- Lawrence Ferrara
- Andrea Förderreuther
- Michael Hampel
- Thomas Katz
- Mark Simons
- Michal Stanikowski
Masterclasses:
- Stephen Goss
- Franz Halasz
- Markus Hechtle
- Hans Werner Huppertz
- William Kanengiser
- Hubert Käppel
- Lucio Matarazzo
- Fabio Shiro Monteiro
- Thomas Patterson
"The future of composition for the guitar."
Louis Ignatius Gall Stiftung / ELGO Productions
"beautifully constructed composition."
Zupfer-Kurier, Bund Deutscher Zupfmusiker
"Part late-romantic-accessibility, part modern with fitting dissonant tone clusters and jagged rhythmic accents the musical inlays [in Die Verlorenen] represent the foundation upon which the achievements of the democracy movement in Baden rested."
Daniel Hennigs, Badische Neueste Nachrichten