Sheila’s new Songs of Resilience premiering nationally 2026

Songs of Resilience

Detainees and families of detainees held in the Delaney Hall ICE detention center will receive support through a fundraising concert in Maplewood New Jersey featuring the World Premiere of Sheila Silver’s Songs of Resilience.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

An opera based on the international best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini.


About Sheila Silver

Sheila Silver is an important and vital voice in American music today. She has written in a wide range of mediums: from solo instrumental works to large orchestral works; from opera to feature film scores. Her musical language is a unique synthesis of the tonal and atonal worlds, coupled with a rhythmic complexity which is both masterful and compelling.

Resilient Earth

Seven Preludes for piano and Four Caprices for solo violin.
Premiered July 2022 at the Dorksy Museum in New Paltz celebrating the retrospective
Exhibit of the work of Mary Frank.

“Cusp” by Mary Frank


The Music Of Sheila Silver: A Celebration

Retrospective Concert now online.

Gilbert Kalish and Christina Dahl pictured above

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