“We had the pleasure of listening to the virtuosic guitar of Silvia Escamilla Jiménez, with whom we felt the lyrical echoes of the voices of the masters, their dialogues, their roots, their traditions... The look of two centuries condensed in an inspiring evening. Thanks to Silvia Escamilla for her art and her smile”
Silvia Escamilla Jiménez (Madrid, 1998) is a concert soloist, researcher and chamber musician specializing in Classical Guitar. She has performed in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Slovenia. Currently, she is pursuing an artistic-scientific PhD in music at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts.
Silvia has performed recitals at renowned festivals and concert series, including the Festival de Música Ribera Alta del Ebro, the Guitar Recital Season organized by the Spanish Guitar Society, the 14th MAGfestival International Chamber Music Festival at Hrvatski Dom (Split), the Arsonore Festival (Austria) or the Stavanger Kunst & Musikk Festival (Norway). She has also performed for prestigious institutions, such as the Fundación Don Juan de Borbón (Ciclo 921 Distrito Musical), the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, the Instituto Cervantes in Stockholm or the Embassy of Spain in Croatia. She has been recognized with prizes and awards at various international guitar competitions, including the Third Prize at the Visegrad Guitar Competition (Bratislava, 2021) or the First Prize of the Internationales Gitarrenfestival (Tübingen, Germany, 2021). In 2021, she founded the Duo Vermeer together with Croatian guitarist Natan Zlodre. They specialized in postgraduate studies in Chamber Music for Classical Guitar at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz, under the mentorship of Professor Petrit Çeku.
Her musical and artistic research work, focused on the dialogue between tradition and modernity in musical composition, has been published in specialized journals such as Roseta, published by the Spanish Guitar Society; the Koninklijk Conservatorium Research Catalogue of the University of Arts in The Hague or Gitara, published by the Croatian Association of Guitar Pedagogues (HUGIP). She has also participated in conference series such as the Feedback Constellations at the Zurich University of the Arts and has received several scholarships for academic excellence and for postgraduate studies abroad.
Silvia Escamilla Jiménez completed the Master's Degree in Performance and Research of Spanish Music (2021) and the Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Guitar (2020) at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid with Professor Javier Somoza. She has also completed —with Cum Laude qualification— the Master in Classical Guitar Performance and Research at the Koninklijk Conservatorium-Royal Conservatoire of the University of the Arts in The Hague with Professor Pavel Steidl (2022).
Silvia Escamilla plays with a guitar by luthier Yunah Park (Madrid) from 2019.