Sheila Silver

Sheila Silver is an important and vital voice in American music today. Her compositions have been commission and performed by numerous orchestras, ensembles, and soloists throughout the world. She has written in a wide range of mediums: from solo instrumental works to large orchestral works; from opera to feature film scores. Her musical language is a unique synthesis of the tonal and atonal worlds, coupled with a rhthmic complexity which is both masterful and compelling. Again and again, audiences and critics praise her music as powerful and emotionally charged, accessible, and masterfully conceived. "Only a few composers in any generation enliven the art form with the musical language and herald new directions in music. Sheila Silver is such a visionary." (Wetterauer Zeitung)

Her opera, A Thousand Splendid Suns, based on Khaled Hosseini's internartional best-selling novel, was premiered in 2023 by Seattle Opera to rave reviews and was short-listed for "Best World Premiere" by the International Opera Awards 2023.