Silvia Borghese

Silvia Borghese, born in Milan on December 2004, obtained her master’s degree in musicology with a specialisation in violin, graduating with honours and distinction from the International Academy of Imola in the class of Maestro Boris Belkin, who still teaches her today. She began studying violin with L. Bjelakovich and completed her three-year academic course at the Milan Conservatory with Maria Caterina Carlini and Anna Minella. She has attended numerous masterclasses by prominent musicians such as Ilya Grubert, J. Comerford, J. Rachlin, S. Bernardini, I. Gringolts, Vesna Stankovic, Alexander Pavlovsky, Ori Kam, Sergei Bresler, Ida Bieler, Eckart Runge, Miguel Da Silva, Mark Messenger and Nathan Braude, Ettore Causa, Erik Schumann, Ken Schumann, and Isabel Villanueva. She has won several first prizes in national and international competitions both as a soloist and in a piano duo, including the Ars Nova International Competition, the Riviera Etrusca, “Adotta un Musicista”, the Valsesia Juniores, the G. Verdi Conservatory Prize in Milan, “Lombardia è musica” and the Capri International Competition. As a soloist, she has played with the Milano Classica orchestra, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini of Parma, the Filarmonica Campana and the OSCOM of Milan. She has played for institutions such as the Società del Quartetto, the Gli amici del Loggione, the Amici della Musica of Perugia and the Ravello Festival, and has participated in radio and television programmes. As first violin of the Thumos Quartet, she has attended courses at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona and performed at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Zeist Music Days festival in the Netherlands, organised by Maestro Alexander Pavlovsky. She also studies chamber music at the Imola Academy with Maestro Marco Zuccarini and plays in a duo with pianist Sofia Donato, with whom she recorded a CD released as a supplement to the October 2025 issue of Suonare News magazine