At home across a wide variety of musical styles and collaborative settings, pianist Corey Silberstein’s music-making reflects his passion for the connections between harmony, poetry, and non-musical disciplines such as painting and literature. Particularly dedicated to the art song genre, he won first prize in vocal accompanying at the 2019 Kneisel Lieder Competition (Rochester, NY). He has held fellowships in collaborative piano at the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. In January 2025, he performed at Carnegie Hall as one of the pianists in Renée Fleming’s SongStudio program.
Between 2020-2024, Corey held the position of Staff Collaborative Pianist at Luther College in Decorah, IA. He has been featured as a masterclass clinician at Missouri State, Oklahoma State, and Truman State Universities. Currently Corey resides in New York City, where he is a sought-after recital partner and coach, and where he serves on the artistic staff of the Manhattan School of Music. He earned his doctorate from at the Eastman School of Music where he studied with pioneering collaborative pianist Jean Barr.