Sheila’s new Songs of Resilience premiering nationally 2026
Songs of Resilience: Benefit Concert for Immigrant Aid & Defense
World Refugee Day, Saturday, June 20 at 7:00 p.m. at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Maplewood, New Jersey. 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’s Songs of Resilience. With Melissa Citro and Teresa Castillo, sopranos, Francesco Barfoed, piano. Concert around 80 minutes with reception to follow.
Songs of Resilience was conceived and created with the support of the following people and organizations. They shared in my vision and helped create the “World Premiere Season” summer of 2026. To each I am deeply indebted.
- Melissa Citro, soprano and activist who organized the New Jersey World Premiere, June 20, 2026, as a fundraiser for Delaney Hall ICE detention center detainees and their families.
- Rosemary Ritter who co-commissioned and produced the second performance at SongFest on July 18, 2026
- Dawn Upshaw who advised me from the start and programmed several of the songs at Tanglewood, August 4 and 16, 2026
- Rising Waters Collective, who helped workshop the songs and gave the Pacific Northwest premiere in Seattle and Vashon Island, August 8 &9, 2026.
Co-produced with PROTESTRA
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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