Virtuoso violinist Eric Silberger is a prize winner of the XIV Tchaikovsky Competition and the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in 2011. Eric has performed as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the US and around the world, including solo performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Chamber Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has appeared at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Louvre in Paris, the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, The Moscow International House of Music in Russia, Shanghai Grand Theatre in China, the National Arts Centre in Canada and more. Among numerous television and radio appearances in the US, Asia and Europe, Eric was featured on Radio France, STV in China, KBS in Korea, and WQXR, WFYI, FOX 59, WISH-TV, and WBAI-FM in the US, and has appeared in "Live from Lincoln Center," the "Perlman in Shanghai" telecast on PBS, and the "Kennedy Center Honors" on CBS. Eric has won the Violin Concerto Competition at Juilliard and the Toyota Award from the Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars. Eric has served as concertmaster of numerous orchestras. Most recent highlights include a solo recital in New York City performing all 24 Paganini Caprices.
Born to a musical family, Eric is a fourth generation musician. Eric began violin studies with his mother at the age of five. Since 2005 to present, he has studied at Juilliard School with Glenn Dicterow, Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Eric has recently graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Eric will continue his studies at the Juilliard School for the Master of Music degree. Eric's former teachers include Pinchas Zukerman at NAC-YAP, Itzhak Perlman, Robert Mann, Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang at Juilliard School Pre-College, Kurt Sassmannshaus at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Ik-Hwan Bae at the Indiana University School of Music. He has been a part of some of the most prestigious summer music festivals including the National Arts Centre Young Artists Programme, the Perlman Music Program, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He is President of Epresto Entertainment LLC, Organizer of the Barnard-Columbia-Juilliard Concert Series at Miller Theater in New York City, Co-Founder of the Fourbythree Chamber Orchestra, former president of the Columbia University Classical Performers and former president of the Columbia University Moy Yee Kung Fu Club.
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