Silvina Milstein

Silvina Milstein (born 12 February 1956, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine composer and scholar of twentieth-century music, living in the United Kingdom and teaching at King’s College London. Her music has been described as “turbulent and hesitantly ecstatic”, as well as “highly poetic”, “rich and dense”. In 2018 her piece shan shui was nominated for the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-Scale Composition. Background and education Milstein emigrated to Britain after the Argentinian military coup of 1976. Her early musical education had taken place at the Collegium Musicum of Buenos Aires and the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the University of La Plata. At Glasgow University her main composition teachers were Judith Weir and Lyell Cresswell. She was awarded a prize as the most distinguished female graduate in the Faculty of Arts. Later she studied under Alexander Goehr, with whom she has also carried out extensive research into the music of Arnold Schoenberg. In the late 1980s she held a Research Fellowship at Jesus College followed by a combined research and teaching Fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge. She is now a professor of music at King’s College London