Biography

Deborah Silberer reads her first music scores at three. At five, she starts the piano. At seven, she gives her first concert — a piece by Daniel Türk and a Beethoven Bagatelle.

Childhood is punctuated by student concerts, several times a year. Music is not a choice. It's a mother tongue.

She studies at the Hochschule in Germany, a rigorous classical training. Then Brussels. A pause. A silence.

And a new beginning.

At twenty-three, she discovers the Cinema Museum in Brussels. She is entrusted with live accompaniment of silent films. It's a revelation: the piano is no longer a solitary exercise facing a score. It becomes a living dialogue with image, time, and audience.

She works there until 2000, accompanying hundreds of screenings.

Then Mexico. Ten years, twenty years. The festivals of Morelia, Guadalajara, Durango. The Filmoteca de la UNAM, the Cineteca Nacional. Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. Hundreds of films, thousands of improvisations.

Today, based in Mexico, Deborah performs regularly at Le Papillon in Mexico City, where she curates the films she accompanies. She composes for theatre, explores extended piano techniques, and pursues a quest: that of a sound that escapes categories.