With a refined pianism and a deep sensitivity to the intimate meaning of music, Silvia Carlin approaches each work with clarity, depth, and artistic awareness. Her interpretations are guided by a sincere desire to convey the Beauty and Poetry of the works she performs, through an approach that is genuine, honest, and deeply communicative.
Winner of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, a prestigious award granted by the Swiss government to outstanding young talents in academic and artistic fields, Silvia Carlin has received numerous prizes at national and international competitions. These include Second Prize at the Marizza Competition (2018) and Third Prize at the Città di Stradella Competition (2018).
In November 2022, she performed at the Steinway Hall Paris as part of the GLocal Piano Festival, organized by the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. In February 2024, she appeared as soloist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, performing the Piano Concerto in G major by Maurice Ravel.
She began her musical studies with Nicoletta De Cian at the “Antonio Miari” Municipal School of Music in Belluno and graduated at the age of sixteen with highest honors, distinction, and special mention from the Conservatorio Arrigo Pedrollo, where she studied with Antonio Rigobello. She continued her education at the Musik-Akademie Basel, earning a Master in Music Performance and a Master in Music Pedagogy under the guidance of Filippo Gamba. She later pursued further studies with Alexandar Madzar at the Hochschule für Musik Hamburg. In January 2023, she completed her studies with a final recital with honors at the Laeiszhalle.
Throughout her artistic journey, she has benefited from the guidance of internationally renowned musicians such as András Schiff, Lilya Zilberstein, Benedetto Lupo, Homero Francesch, Ferenc Rados, and Massimiliano Ferrati.
She performs regularly in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, with a particular focus on duo repertoire with cellist Valentina Dubrovina.
In 2024, together with Valentina Dubrovina, she founded the REVISION Project, an initiative dedicated to the research and rediscovery of forgotten composers, with the aim of bringing their works back to today’s concert stages.
Alongside her concert activity, Silvia Carlin is deeply committed to teaching and, since 2019, has been a faculty member at the School of Music of the Musik-Akademie Basel.