For over 50 years Stanley Silverman has enjoyed a varied and rich career in both the classical and popular musical worlds, and in theater and film. He has done a great deal of work on and off-Broadway with such stage luminaries as Arthur Miller, Richard Foreman, Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn and Anthony Burgess. He was the conductor of the Joe Papp/Lincoln Center production of Threepenny Opera (Tony and Grammy nominees) and directed the 1983 production of Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his orchestrations for Paul Simon’s musical The Capeman.

Silverman’s music has been performed by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the BBC Philharmonic, Richard Stoltzman, Tashi, James Taylor, Sting, Paul Simon and Elton John. His music has been performed at international festivals such as the Autumn Festivals of Paris and Madrid, the Stratford Festival of Canada, the RSC, the Royal Exchange, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, and the Delphi Festival of Greece. Film scores include Simon, Eyewitness, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can and Nanook of the North.

Silverman has won Obie, Drama Desk, Naumburg, and Koussevitsky Foundation Awards, and has been nominated for a Tony Award. He arranged James Taylor’s album Hourglass which won the Grammy Award as the Best Pop Album of 1998 and served as arranger for the Rainforest Fund Benefit Concerts produced by Trudie Styler and Sting. He was twice commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has received two Guggenheim Fellowships as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation. SIilverman was honored in 2004 by the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, and by the Stratford Festival of Canada in 2013. In 2018 Silverman received a Zubin Mehta Lifetime Achievement Award.