– Allegro 

– Sheep May Safely Graze 

– Sleepers Awake

– Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring 

 -Sleeping Beauty’s Pavane

 -Tom Thumb

 -Empress of the Pagodas

 -Conversations between Beauty and the Beast

 -The Magic Garden

David Silkoff studied the piano with Lina Collins and won a Junior Exhibition to the Guildhall School of Music where he studied with Ieuan Roberts. He later became a full time student at the Royal College of Music where he studied under Kendall Taylor and Cyril Smith; during this time he won a Martin Scholarship for further study. David also studied at the Royal Academy for two years where he won the Lloyd Hartley prize. In 1971 David performed Beethoven’s 3^rd piano concerto at the Maltings in Snape with the Redbridge Musici orchestra in the presence of Benjamin Britten who highly praised his playing.

In 1975 he gave a very successful Wigmore Hall debut which was highly praised in the ‘Review of London Recitals’ mentioning his glowing technique and sensitive playing. He has also performed at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall and has given recitals in Holland, Luxembourg and Vienna.

His repertoire ranges from Bach and Beethoven to Scriabin and Ligeti. In 2015 he premiered a first performance of Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht for solo piano.  He is highly sought after as an accompanist in duos and chamber music and in 2018 visited France where he accompanied his sister-in-law the cellist Sylvia Mann for a recital at a chateau in the Loire Valley. In the following year he gave a solo recital  again at the same venue in France.  David has given recitals at the Purcell Room and for the London Schubert Society.  Over recent years he has performed with many orchestras; concertos include all the Beethoven, Mendelssohn G minor, Schumann, Grieg, Brahms 1st and Rachmaninov 2^nd.

During 2019, David accompanied Anneke Scott in Preston where she gave a lecture recital on the natural horn. This year concerts have included piano recitals at Brentwood Cathedral, St John’s Arts Centre, Harlow and many recitals as a duo partner. David Silkoff very recently returned from Budapest where he was accompanist to a choir and several singer soloists. In September last year he gave a piano recital in Cirencester at St John the Baptist Church and in November he performed Beethovens Concertos 4 and 5 with the Woodford Symphony Orchestra to celebrate his 75^th birthday. David also has a busy teaching career and many of his students are following successful careers as musicians.

Margaret began playing the piano, aged 6. She won the Associated Board Gold Medal for Grade 7, gaining the highest examination mark across all instruments in the UK.

After winning a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music, she studied there with Kendall Taylor, Bernard Roberts and Peter Wallfisch. As a student at the RCM, she was a prize winner and performed regularly as soloist and in chamber music ensembles. She has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, Blackheath Concert Hall, St James Piccadilly, Leeds Castle in Kent, the Holywell Room in Oxford and other venues in the South East.