“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) completed the Classical Guitar Bachelor Degree (2020) and Master's Degree in Performance and Research of Spanish Music (2021) 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). Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in the Universitat für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz (KUG) in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
As a performer, she has won prizes and has been a finalist in different competitions. She has received the Third Prize of the Visegrad Guitar Competition (Bratislava, Slovakia, 2021) and the First Prize of the Internationales Gitarrenfestival (Tübingen, Germany, 2021).
Silvia has given recitals and offered masterclasses at Festivals held in cities of Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Austria and Slovenia. Among others, the IV Festival de Jóvenes Guitarristas "José Luis Rodrigo", the 10th Jornadas de Plectro y Guitarra, the inauguration of the Second Edition of the Festival de Música Ribera Alta del Ebro or the first concert of the 2022-2023 Guitar Recital Season programmed by the Spanish Guitar Society (Manuel de Falla Auditorium, Madrid). She has given recitals for institutions such as the Fundación Don Juan de Borbón (Ciclo 921 Distrito Musical, Segovia), the Residencia de Estudiantes (Madrid) or the Instituto Cervantes in Stockholm. Furthermore, she has performed in The Hague (Concertzaal-Amare, Groene Zaal-Sociëtet de Witte, Concrete Classics), Tübingen (Laureates in Concert. Internationales Gitarrenfestival, 2022), in different cities from Croatia (Strings of Koprivnica: Guitar Weekend, the 14th MAGfestival International Chamber Music Festival. Hrvatski Dom, Split, Sinj Guitar Days, Chamber Music Festival Solin Classic-Festival Komorne Glazbe Solin Classic) and Austria (ARSONORE FESTIVAL 2024 - Internationales Musikfest der Überraschungen). Likewise, she has collaborated in different musical programs of Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) and has participated in live recordings for Radio West in the Netherlands and for the Croatian television channel HRT. Together with the guitarist Natan Zlodre (Croatia) creates the Duo Vermeer. Currently, they specialise in the Chamber Music for Classical Guitar Master’s Program offered by the Universitat für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz under the guidance of Professor Petrit Çeku.
Her musical research work —focused on the dialogue between tradition and modernity in musical composition— have been published in specialized media such as the journal Roseta, edited by the Spanish Guitar Society, the Koninklijk Conservatorium Research Catalogue of the University of Arts in The Hague or Gitara, journal published by the Croatian Association of Guitar Pedagogues (HUGIP). She has received several scholarships for academic excellence and for postgraduate studies abroad.
Silvia Escamilla plays with a guitar by luthier Yunah Park (Madrid) from 2019.