Bruno Silva – Began studying viola in 2004 in his native Brazil at the Escola de Musica de Brasilia.  After one year, he placed in a solo competition and had the opportunity to perform with the Orquestra Sinfonica da Escola de Musica de Brasilia, performing the G Major Viola Concerto by Telemann.  He graduated from the conservatory in two and a half years, a program which normally takes eight years, and then enrolled in the University of Brasilia.

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Bruno has gained much experience as and orchestral and chamber musician.  He has worked with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Chicago Sinfonietta, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, among others.  Bruno worked under conductors such as Cliff Colnot, Ricardo Muti, Susanna Malkki, Alastair Willis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Andrew Davis, Jaap Van Zweden,  Mei-Ann Chen, Alex Klein, Harry Bicket, among others. With the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, he had the opportunity of working with Yo-Yo Ma.  Bruno was a founding member of the YOURS (Youth Orchestra Urban Rita Simon) Project Chicago, which is an El Sistema music program for unprivileged students, where he worked until 2012. Bruno Completed his undergraduate in music performance at North Park University where he studied with Charles Pikler, Chicago Symphony principal viola and his MM at DePaul University, studying with Rami Solomonow, Lyric Opera of Chicago former viola principal. Bruno has judged many competitions such as solo and ensemble and ILMEA. Today, Bruno is a freelancer in the Chicago area performing concerts with several orchestras, teaching private lessons, writing arrangements, and performing with the Cloud Gate String Quartet for weddings and events.

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Bruno started studying arranging at the Escola de Musica de Brasilia in 2003. From 2009-2012 Bruno worked on educational arrangements for full orchestra at the YOURS project in Chicago. In 2016, he started working on arrangements for string quartets and trios all over the US. Since then he has written arrangements for quartets such as Highline String Quartet, Kirkwood String Quartet, Promenade String Quartet, Kalkaska String Quartet, River Oaks String Quartet, Olmsted String Quartet, Nelson String Quartet, Music City Quartet, Bishop String Quartet, Ocean Side String Quartet, Sutro String Quartet, Castle Hill String Quartet and other groups. In 2019 Bruno was asked to edit an ILMEA audition district 7 excerpt. He has also edited for the ILMEA festival performance that year. In 2020, Bruno was asked to write arrangements for a tour consisting of two high school’s joint orchestra and band performances. Bruno has also written arrangements for the Wheeling High School Choir. Some of Bruno’s arrangements can be found on Sheet Music Plus. Recently, Bruno has being working on arrangements for a 2021 chamber music performance for the Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra Signature Series.