In collaboration with the College of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Brazilian pianist Silvia Molan performs on a piano with a 6.0 inch octave at the Steingraeber & Söhne Piano House. The program will include works by Chopin, Schumann and Villa Lobos.
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The Brazilian pianist and piano pedagogue Silvia Molan is engaged in the Future Initiative Sirius 6.0 of the University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart (Germany) as a co-founder since 2020. As a lecturer for non-major pianists at the University of Catholic Church Music and Musical Education Regensburg and as a piano teacher at the Esslingen School of Music she educates students of different aspirations and all ages. She also serves as a visiting lecturer at the HMDK Stuttgart for “Coaching Sirius 6.0”, providing guidance to pianists experiencing playing-related overload syndromes.
Silvia Molan has been performing as soloist, with orchestra and as chamber musician on stages in Germany, France, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Austria and the USA. She has won more than 30 piano competitions, mostly first prizes and special awards, from early age. Among them, the first prize at the sixth edition of the Brazilian national competition for young soloists “Preludio”.
Silvia Molan started having piano lessons with Regina Damiatti at 7 and during eight years, with Rosa Maria Tolón. She studied Bachelor of Music with Prof. Dr. Eduardo Monteiro at the University of São Paulo, where she also had lessons with Prof. Dr. Luciana Sayure. A scholarship brought her to Paris to study with Rena Shereshevskaya at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot for a year. Afterwards, she obtained a DAAD scholarship to study Master Piano Performance at the Karlsruhe University of Music (Germany), in the class of Prof. Michael Uhde, where she also had lessons with Anna Zassimova and chamber music lessons with Prof. Ralf Gothóni and Prof. Angelika Merkle. 2019-2022 she studied her second Master of Music at the HMDK Stuttgart with Prof. Ulrike Wohlwender (piano pedagogy) and Prof. Dr. Michael Göllner (instrumental pedagogy), supported by a scholarship from Piano Fischer, Stuttgart.
She carries with her significant learning and inspiration also from international festivals and master classes, among others, with Cristina Ortiz, Dina Yoffe, Maria João Pires, Sergio Gallo, Richard Raymond, Guigla Katsarava, Marina Lomazov and Klaus Hellwig.
Take a look at her recital for Stretto 2021 at the public premiere of Sirius 6.0!