Emanuele Silvestri currently serves as Principal Cellist at the IPO, establishing himself internationally as a soloist and chamber musician of the highest caliber. He moved from Italy to Israel in 2011.

Emanuele received his master’s degree with the maximum votes (ten cum laude) in Italy at the Milan Conservatory, where he was a student of G. Laffranchini, Principal cellist at the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra. He trained at the most noted Italian music schools, such as the Romanini Foundation in Brescia with Mario Brunello, the Accademia W. Stauffer in Cremona with Rocco Filippini, and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Alain Meunier, where he received a diploma ad Honorem in 1996. in 1997, Emanuele was awarded Solisten Diplom at the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel, completing his studies with cello teacher Ivan Monighetti. At the Akademie in Basel during the same years, he was also a student in the chamber music class of W. Levine, H. Bayerle and the pianist Gerard Wiss.

An extremely active chamber musician, Emanuele has performed with numerous ensembles in Europe, Japan, and South America, such as the Sestetto Leonardo and the Serenata Trio, with whom he toured in 2005 throughout Italy, Albania, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil. At the Orpheus Konzerte in Zurich, he won prizes in 1998-99 as a member of the best chamber music ensemble. In Basel, he won the BOG Basel Orchester Gesellschaft prize for Chamber Music in 1997, recording for the Swiss Radio.