Jeffrey Gabriel Silva (b. Chicago, IL 1984), studied classical guitar at the Merit School of Music with Thomas Clippert (1999-2002) and thereafter received a bachelor’s degree from DePaul University (BM 2006) majoring in classical guitar with Mark Maxwell and composition with Juan Campoverde and Kurt Westerberg. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (MM 2008) where he studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Michael Fiday, and Joel Hoffman.
He has also participated in summer festivals as a classical guitarist and/or composer including Le Domaine Forget Summer Academy (2002, 2004), Mount Orford Summer Electronic Music Workshop (2007), and June in Buffalo (2007). In master class settings he has studied with classical guitarists Benjamin Verdery, Larry Coryell, Patrick Roux, Denis Poliquin, Sergio Assad, and Colin McAllister, as well as additional composition private lessons with Rodrigo Sigal, Judith Shatin, Richard Toensing, Yves Daoust, and Paul Koonce.
A founding member of the Avanti Guitar Trio, Jeff teaches at Wilbur Wright College and the Chicago High School for the Arts.
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Jeffrey Gabriel Silva (b. Chicago, IL 1984), studied classical guitar at the Merit School of Music with Thomas Clippert (1999-2002) and thereafter received a bachelor’s degree from DePaul University (BM 2006) majoring in classical guitar with Mark Maxwell and composition with Juan Campoverde and Kurt Westerberg. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (MM 2008) where he studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Michael Fiday, and Joel Hoffman.
He has also participated in summer festivals as a classical guitarist and/or composer including Le Domaine Forget Summer Academy (2002, 2004), Mount Orford Summer Electronic Music Workshop (2007), and June in Buffalo (2007). In master class settings he has studied with classical guitarists Benjamin Verdery, Larry Coryell, Patrick Roux, Denis Poliquin, Sergio Assad, and Colin McAllister, as well as additional composition private lessons with Rodrigo Sigal, Judith Shatin, Richard Toensing, Yves Daoust, and Paul Koonce.
A founding member of the Avanti Guitar Trio, Jeff teaches at Wilbur Wright College and the Chicago High School for the Arts.
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