Silvia Marcovici
Silvia Marcovici - violinist
Person from Romania
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About Silvia Marcovici
Born in Romania, Silvia Marcovici studied in Bacau and Bucharest with Stefan Gheorghiu. In 1969, she won first prize in the Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris and in 1970, she was the winner of the first prize in the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. Ms. Marcovici made her professional debut with the Residentie Orkest of The Hague when she was only sixteen. In 1972, she was invited by Leopold Stokowski to perform the Glazunov concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. This concert was recorded by Decca. Since then, Silvia Marcovici has performed with many orchestras in Europe and the U.S.A.: The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, L'Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica de L'Accademia Nazionale de Santa Cecilia, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati, Atlanta, National Symphony (Washington D.C.), Philadelphia Orchestra, etc. Ms. Marcovici has worked with numerous conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Sergiu Comissiona, James DePreist, Placido Domingo, Bernard Haitink, Eliahu Inbal, Neeme Järvi, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Andrè Previn, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alessandro Siciliani, David Zinman, etc. She appears regularly in North America, South America, Japan, Israel and throughout Europe. She has recorded the ten Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano as well as the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi.She teaches at the Kunstuniversität Graz.Silvia Marcovici plays a P. Albani violin made in circa 1800. She is married to the violinist Diego Pagin. They live in Strasbourg and have two children.
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