Deborah Silberer

Pianist. Composer. Improviser.

Where silence meets the image, she improvises a dialogue between the piano and the shadows of silent cinema.

Deborah Silberer accompanies silent films with live improvisation, composes for theatre and cinema, and pursues a sonic exploration that pushes the boundaries of the instrument.

Based in Mexico, she performs regularly in Mexico, Belgium, and at international festivals.

Improvisation begins where the score ends. It's an act of gentle disobedience — not against music, but against habit.

Silent Cinema

The dialogue between sound and image

Accompanying a silent film is not illustrating. It's listening.

Each screening is unique. The same film, accompanied twice, never sounds the same way. That's the nature of improvisation: the film leads, the pianist follows, and something is born between the two that belongs to neither.