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SYLVIA THEREZA

PIANIST

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Sylvia Thereza is a Brazilian pianist of rare artistic depth, combining charisma, stage experience and a human and social awareness that runs through her entire trajectory. With an extensive international career, she is winner of the Nelson Freire Competition (Rio de Janeiro, 2004) and the Gina Bachauer Competition (Latin America), and was awarded a prize at the Martha Argerich edition of the International Piano Competition of Vigo (Spain, 2019).

She was mentored by Bella Davidovich, Alan Weiss, Earl Wild and Sergio Tiempo, and was guided in Brazil by Maria da Penha, a disciple of Marguerite Long, Guiomar Novaes and Jozef Turczynski, and by Myrian Dauelsberg, a disciple of Vlado Perlemuter and Heitor Villa-Lobos. But it was alongside Maria João Pires that she consolidated a central part of her artistic formation, collaborating actively in projects, workshops and duo tours across Europe and the East, and serving, at Pires' invitation, as assistant professor at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium from 2012 to 2016.Sylvia has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and recitalist since the age of six, appearing throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. Over the course of her career, she has been regularly invited to prestigious festivals and concert series, and has performed with orchestras such as the Brussels Philharmonic, the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, the Hannover Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (Osesp), the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, the Orquestra Simón Bolívar, the Royal Bangkok Symphony, the New Mexico Philharmonic and several other major Brazilian orchestras.

As a chamber musician, she has performed alongside artists such as Maria João Pires, Daniel Hope, Augustin Dumay, Misha Taits, Ning Kam and Sting, among others. With Daniel Hope, she undertook a tour of important series and festivals across Europe, a partnership that also resulted in the recording of the album America, released by Deutsche Grammophon, in which Sylvia performs, in her own arrangement, the Sam Cooke classic A Change Is Gonna Come, alongside Hope and Joy Denalane.The core of her artistic identity is rooted in the great European piano tradition, particularly Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, while she simultaneously develops projects dedicated to Brazilian music and chamber repertoire, always conceived in a curatorial manner, in which music retains its philosophical dimension and engages with contemporary human questions.The Belgian government awarded Sylvia Thereza the recognition of Exceptional Experience and Notority. In 2021, she accepted the position of piano professor at the prestigious Luca School of Arts in Belgium, a member institution of the KU Leuven Association.Her way of experiencing art has taken her to the most important stages in the world and, in contrast, to some of the most vulnerable communities. She founded Uaná, Association for the Arts, in Belgium, a platform dedicated to cultural diplomacy, emancipatory arts education and international artistic exchange. Through Uaná, she has brought together leading names from the music world who, through their contribution, work as educators bringing art to people in vulnerable situations, via music education, concerts, exhibitions and recordings. To date, her social projects in Brazil, Africa and Belgium have impacted more than 30,000 children.

“I was profoundly struck by the sensitivity and the very particular personality of this young pianist who moved me deeply and I dare foresee a brilliant career thanks to all her great artistic qualities.” 
Teresa Berganza​
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