Sérgio Silva (5)

organist Born in Lisbon, Sérgio Silva studied the organ with João Vaz at the Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa and at the University of Évora. He attended several masterclasses, having worked with José Luiz González Uriol, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Jan Willem Jansen, Michel Bouvard, Kristian Olesen and Hans-Ola Ericsson. With a particular interest on Portuguese early music, Sérgio Silva holds a Master degree in Music, with a dissertation on authorship and critical edition of Pedro de Araújo’s idiomatic works for the Iberian organ. He is an active performer, both as a soloist and in ensembles, having played in concerts throughout Portugal, Spain, France, England, Germany, Croatia and Macau. Sérgio Silva has also performed as both a soloist and in ensembles in several recordings. As a researcher, he devotes himself to the study of Portuguese early music, from vocal polyphony to organ music, having prepared several editions for performance and publication. One of the most recent projects of score edition he is working on is the complete critical edition of the collection Flores de Música by Manuel Rodrigues Coelho, published in the ECHOM (ECHO Collection of Historical Organ Music) series, under the direction of João Vaz. Sérgio Silva is organ teacher at the Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa and at the Escola de Música Sacra de Lisboa and is also the titular organist of two of the most important historical organs in Lisbon – Basílica da Estrela and Igreja de São Nicolau.