Born in Romania, Silvia Marcovici studied in Bacău and Bucharest with Harry Coffler and Ștefan Gheorghiu. In 1969, she won the First Prize at the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris and in 1970, she was the winner of the First Prize at the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Silvia Marcovici made her professional debut when she was only 16, with the Residentie Orkest of The Hague under the baton of the composer Bruno Maderna. After playing with the London Symphony Orchestra, at the invitation of Claudio Abbado he performed Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Orchestra Teatro alla Scala in Milan. 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 on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the distinguished conductor.
In 1976, Silvia Marcovici emigrated to Israel, which gave her an international career (Romania was in the middle of the communist regime). In the early 80s, she settled in Germany and became a professor at the University of Music in Saarbrücken. She has also taught at the Tibor Varga Music Academy in Sion, Switzerland and at the Faculty of Music of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
Silvia Marcovici has performed with many orchestras in Europe and the USA: Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, National Symphony Orchestras (Washington, D.C.), and Philadelphia Orchestra. She has worked with numerous conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Sergiu Comissiona, James DePreist, Plácido Domingo, Bernard Haitink, Eliahu Inbal, Neeme Järvi, Jesús López Cobos, Riccardo Muti, André Previn, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alessandro Siciliani, or David Zinman.
She performed in North and 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 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi. Currently, she is teaching at the Perosi Academy in Italy.
