Extension Division Faculty
Faye-Ellen SilvermanB.A.,
Barnard College (cum laude and honors in music). A.M., Harvard University.
D.M.A., Columbia University.
History of Music; Techniques of Music
Profile:Faye-Ellen
Silverman began her music studies before the age of four at the Dalcroze School
of Music. She first achieved national recognition by winning the Parents League
Competition, judged by Leopold Stokowski, at the age of 13. Her
compositions are published by Seesaw Music Corp., a division of Subito Music,
and recorded on Albany, New World Records, Capstone, Crystal and
Finnadar-Atlantic Records. She has received awards from the National
League of American Pen Women ASCAP, Meet the Composer, and the American
Music Center, and been awarded residencies at the Villa Serbelloni , VCCA, the
Macdowell Colony, and Yaddo. Her work Oboe-sthenics was
chosen to represent the United States at the International Rostrum of
Composers/UNESCO, resulting in international radio broadcasts, and Winds and
Sines won the Indiana State [Orchestral] Composition Contest, resulting in
a performance by the Indianapolis Symphony, a Governor's Citation, and having
September 30, 1982 named Faye-Ellen Silverman Day in Baltimore by Mayor Donald
Schaeffer. She has received commissions from the Phoenix Concert series,
Edinboro University Chamber Players, Seraphim, Philip A. De Simone, Larry
Madison, Thomas Matta, the IWBC for Junction, the Monarch Brass Quintet, the
Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, the Fromm Foundation, NEA, Great Lakes
Performing Artist Associates, Con Spirito, the Greater Lansing Symphony, and
the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore. The Baltimore Symphony, the Brooklyn
Philharmonic, the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, the New Orleans Philharmonic,
the International Experimental Music Festival in Bourges, ISCM - Korea section,
Nieuwe Oogst (Belgium), Grupo Musica Hoje (Brazil), the Corona Guitar Quartet
(Denmark), Jauna Muzika (Lithuania), the Monday Evening Concert series (L.A.),
Voices of Change (Dallas) and the Aspen Music Festival are among the many
groups that have performed Dr. Silverman’s works. She is also a Founding
Member of Music Under Construction (a composers’ collective), a Founding Board
Member of the International Women’s Brass Conference and the author of the
20th-century section of the Schirmer History of Music, several journal
articles, and record reviews for The Baltimore Sun. As a pianist she
recorded for Radio Cologne (WDR), and has performed at the International
Festival of Experimental Music in Bourges, the Library of Congress, and as
soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Music Literature Faculty, Mannes
College of Music since 1991.
