About the Author

Raymond Silvertrust was born in Chicago. He began to study the cello in grade school. Among his teachers were Harold Cruthirds, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra cellists, Joseph Saunders and Joseph Sciacchitano. He attended Northwestern University where he studied with Dudley Powers, Professor of Cello. After graduating, he was briefly a substitute in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and then was a member of the Tehran (Iran) Symphony Orchestra. While at the University of Vienna, he studied chamber music with Willi Boskovsky, concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and leader of the famous Boskovsky Chamber Music Ensemble. He also studied cello with VPO cellist Nikolaus Hübner. Over the years, he has performed in several amateur and professional chamber music groups. He has served as the editor and frequent contributor to The Chamber Music Journal for three decades. In 2003, he founded the chamber music publishing firm Edition Silvertrust dedicated to publishing unjustly neglected music by composers many of whom were once famous and whose music was often performed in concert and in the homes of amateurs. Edition Silvertrust now offers nearly 3000 chamber music works which can be found nowhere else. He has edited new editions and world premier editions of chamber music by several composers including Arkady Filippenko, Gustav Helsted, Andrei Shtoharenko, Alberto Nepomuceno, Vissarion Shebalin, Peter Heise, Franz Krommer, Paul Wranitzky, George Chadwick, Alexander Alyabiev, George Onslow, Jan Levoslav Bella, Gyula Beliczay, Ruperto Chapi, Friedrich Fesca, and Guillaume Lekeu among others.