Dear friends, I would love to share with you my knowledge and experience as a professional cellist and teacher, helping you on topics related to cello and orchestra Auditions, including preparation, repertoire, orchestral and solo excerpts, giving special attention on setting, musical and technical advices.
I am available also to coach chamber music ensembles.

Please, find below my Bio, and don't hesitate to message me to schedule a meeting,
Looking forward!
Emanuele

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Emanuele Silvestri currently serves as Principal Cellist at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, recent appointment, previously sitting at the first chair of the Cello Section of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years, establishing himself internationally as a soloist and chamber musician of the highest calibre.
He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras in Europe, including the Israel Philhramonic Orchestra, the Orchestra del Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia,Teatro alla Scala di Milano (cello solo concertante), the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the "Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano" and "Milano Classica”, under the direction, among others, of Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Christopher Hogwood, and Diego Matheuz, Gustavo Dudamel.
An extremely active chamber musician, Emanuele Silvestri has performed with numerous artists and ensembles in Europe, Japan and South America, such as Leonidas Kavakos, Lahav Shani, Yuja Wang, Misha Maisky, Pinchas Zuckerman, Gil Shaham, Maria Joao Pires, David Garret, Salvatore Accardo, Jerusalem Quartet and others.
Former cellist and co-founder of the ‘Quartetto d’archi del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia”, he was regularly invited to be part of the famous contemporary music festival “La Biennale di Venezia”. After his moving to Israel, in 2011, he also joined for several years the “Israel String Quartet”, forming an intense musical relationship with the historical Israeli ensemble.
With the “Sestetto Leonardo” and the “Serenata Trio,” he toured in 2005 throughout Italy, Albania, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brasil. At the “Orpheus Konzerte” in Zurich he won prizes in 1998/1999 as a member of the best chamber music ensemble. In Basel he won the BOG Basel Orchester Gesellschaft prize for Chamber Music in 1997, recording for the Swiss Radio.
He was awarded many first prizes in Italy in cello competitions, and a second prize at the Domnik Preis International Cello Competition in Stuttgard in 1996.

Emanuele received his master’s degree with the maximum votes (10 cum laude) in Italy at the “Conservatorio di Musica G.Verdi” in Milan, where he was a student of G.Laffranchini, Principal cellist at the “Teatro alla Scala Orchestra”. Trained at the most famous Italian music schools, such as the “Romanini Foundation” in Brescia with Mario Brunello, the “Accademia W. Stauffer” in Cremona with Rocco Filippini and the “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena with Alain Meunier, where he got the Diploma “ad Honorem” in 1996, Emanuele Silvestri was awarded Solisten Diplom at the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel in 1997, completing his studies with cello teacher Ivan Monighetti. At the Akademie in Basel during the same years he was also a student in the chamber music class of W.Levine, H.Bayerle – La Salle and Alban Berg Quartet – and the pianist Gerard Wiss.

His orchestral career started with the ECYO, now EUYO, where he was a member from 1992 to 1995 playing under the direction of Giulini, Sanderling, Slatkin, Kuhn, Askenazy, Prêtre and prepared by David Strange (Royal Academy of London). From 1993, Emanuele Silvestri was Principal cellist at the “Orchestra Verdi di Milano” under V.Delman; he was frequently Guest Principal Cellist at the “Teatro Lirico di Cagliari” and the “Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Torino”, and from 1998 he joined as Guest Cellist of the “Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala” in Milano. In 2000 he was chosen by conductor Myung Wung Chung to serve as Second Cello of the “Orchestra Sinfonica di Santa Cecilia” in Rome. After an audition in 2005, he has been frequently invited as Guest Principal Cello of the “Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Alla Scala di Milano”. Before moving to Israel, Emanuele was for 8 years Principal Cellist at the“Teatro La Fenice di Venezia”.
Emanuele Silvestri has given masterclasses in Argentina, Brasil, Canada, Italy, Israel and China, and he is very active in music education and orchestra training, he has been part of many Youth Orchestra Academy initiatives, teaching for example at Lanciano Summer courses, AYSO Orchestra Academy in Puglia (Italy).
Since his relocation in Israel in 2011 Emanuele Silvestri has been part of the teacher team at The Buchmann Mehta School of Music where he was teaching cello, and coaching the cello section of the The Buchmann-Mehta Symphony Orchestra.
His teaching experience include teaching at the Conservatorio di Musica A.Steffani di Castelfranco Veneto and the Tel Aviv Conservatory of Music Stricker
Emanuele Silvestri plays on his cello made by Domenico Busan in Venice in 1760 ca, alternatively on the David Tecchler (Rome 1629) property of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.