ABOUT SYLVIA FILUS
French and Polish composer, Sylvia FILUS is graduated in film music composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and in orchestration at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
(First Price).
Her collaborations with renowned soloists, teachers and orchestras, as well as filmmakers from different countries, have led her to write for all kinds of music ensembles and for around twenty movies. His music is known for being a combination of "French harmonies and a Polish soul".
In 2008, commissioned by the Musica Sacra Society and the Sinfonietta Nordica chamber orchestra, Sylvia Filus composed a cycle of three melodies for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra to the poems by Zbigniew Herbert. Premiered at the international festival The Music of Words in Gdynia, Poland, the cycle was performed at The Silk of the Soul of Zbigniew Herbert concert in Warsaw.
In 2010, for the 200th birthday of Frédéric Chopin and the inauguration of his statue in the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland, was created the Fantasy in minor salt for symphony orchestra by Sylvia Filus, commissioned by the Obligato orchestra and the Polish Society of Strauss conducted by Jerzy Sobenko. The same year Sylvia Filus received the Trophée de la Réussite au Féminin awarded by the France-Euro-Mediterranean Association and was a finalist in the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition competition.
In 2011, Sylvia Filus composed the music for the Moroccan feature film Le Bout du monde by Hakim Noury and for the documentary Avec toi, sans toi by Francesca Ragusa. Winner of the Sacem and Lobster Films competition, she wrote the music for the silent films Le Danseur de jazz (feature film) and Cretinetti: Troppo bello! (short film). The following year she composed the music for the full length documentary Fishermen by Viktoria Marinov.
Awarded in the International Composition Competition for Budding Artists in Luxembourg in 2013, Sylvia Filus was also a Member of the Jury of the XV Milosz Magin International Piano Competition . In January 2014, among 25 French composers, she was featured at the BO Concert - film music concert at the Grand Rex in Paris. In March of the same year, her piece The Cobweb was premiered at the traditional Spring Concert in Padua, Italy, by the I Solisti Veneti orchestra, conducted by Claudio Scimone.
In 2020 Sylvia Filus composed the soundtrack for the medium-length film When I Grow Up by Yves Levy, benefiting of The Found for original music from Sacem and in 2021, for the poem by Francis Ponge The pleasures of the door for the bass-baritone Frédéric Albou, as well as the poems of Yolanda Podejma-Eloyanne. In 2023 Sylvia Filus is the winner of the CRESCENDO composer promotion scheme, as well as the TRIO Residency of the Maison du Film and in 2024 several of her works are performed in New York, Key West in Florida and in Paris.