Silvia Marcovici

Silvia Marcovici was born in 1952 in Bacău

Silvia Marcovici was born on 30 January 1952 in Bacău, Romania, to a Jewish family. Her parents were Avraham Marcovici and Ana, born Katz.

She studied music in her hometown and then at the Bucharest Conservatory. From age 12 she was a pupil of the violinist Ștefan Gheorghiu. As a teenager she made her first concert abroad in The Hague, conducted by Bruno Maderna.

In 1969 she took second prize at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, where no first prize was given. In 1970 she won first prize at the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. In 1972 Leopold Stokowski invited her to play the Glazunov Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra, and Decca recorded the concert.

In 1976 she left Romania for Israel and became an Israeli citizen. From the early 1980s she taught in Saarbrücken and at the Tibor Varga academy in Sion. She is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

She performs in the Americas, Japan, Israel and Europe, including chamber music with her son, the pianist Aimo Pagin. She is married to the Swiss violinist Diego Pagin and lives in Strasbourg.