La Tempestad & Silvia Márquez Chulilla
Biography La Tempestad & Silvia Márquez Chulilla
Silvia Márquez Chulilla
Restless and enthusiastic, she is presently one of the most versatile and active performers. A specialist in historical keyboards, she feels equally comfortable on harpsichord, organ, or fortepiano.
Born in Zaragoza, she won First Prize for both Harpsichord and Organ in 1996 at the Young Music Performers’ Permanent Contest. From that point on, awards and acknowledgements followed: Special Jury Prize for the best historical performance and an Honorable Mention at the 1999 Spring International Contest in Prague, an Honorable Mention at the 2001 Bruges Harpsichord International Contest (Belgium), among others. She was a member of the 2001 European Union Baroque Orchestra, performing in France, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Hungary and China, under conductors Roy Goodman, Andrew Manze, Alfredo Bernardini and Edward Higginbottom.
She has performed in Spain, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, Andorra, Austria, Slovakia, Estonia, Portugal, Bolivia and Panamá, and for the last few years she has been invited to be a member of the jury in numerous competitions. She widely performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player with such conductors as Fabio Biondi, Giuliano Carmignola and Paul Goodwin, among others. She has appeared as a soloist with the Orquesta de Cámara Española, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Soloists Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Grupo Enigma and others, and she regularly performs with early music ensemble Forma Antiqva.
A number of her concerts have been recorded and broadcast by RNE2, RTVE, BBC, RTL and Czech Radio. Her recordings include discs of music by A. Vivaldi (Warner 2004), D. Scarlatti and Haendel (MAA 2007), C. P. E. Bach (Arsis 2009) and L. Boccherini (alongside harpsichordist Alfonso Sebastián).
Her first solo release, “Chaconnerie” (IBS 2018), is an exciting and unusual journey through the chaconas for keyboard from the 16th century to our days, and includes Roberto Sierra’s Montuno, composed for her and nominated to the Latin Grammy Awards 2018.
“Herbania” (IBS 2019), with three world premieres, means the first CD in the market entirely devoted to Spanish XX century music written for harpsichord.
