# Trudy Silver

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{{short description|American jazz pianist and composer (born 1953)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Trudy Silver
| birth_name      =
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|1953|4|24}}
| birth_place     = [New Britain, Connecticut](/source/New_Britain%2C_Connecticut), U.S.
| genre           = [Jazz](/source/Jazz), [avant-garde jazz](/source/avant-garde_jazz), [free jazz](/source/free_jazz)
| occupation      = Musician
| instrument      = [piano](/source/piano)
| years_active    = 1979–present
| label           =
| website         = {{URL|www.trudysilver.com}}
}}

'''Trudy Silver''' (born April 24, 1953) is an American [jazz](/source/jazz) pianist and composer.

==Life==
Born and raised in [New Britain, Connecticut](/source/New_Britain%2C_Connecticut), she started playing piano at age 7, often practicing on her aunt's seven-foot [Mason & Hamlin](/source/Mason_%26_Hamlin) concert [grand piano](/source/grand_piano).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.courant.com/2011/05/29/trudy-silver-renunites-with-aunt-lils-piano-sunday/ |last=McNally |first=Owen |publisher=The Courant |date=May 29, 2011 |title=Trudy Silver Renunites With Aunt Lil's Piano Sunday}}</ref> Silver studied composition and music appreciation with Armin Loos before moving to [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California) in January 1971.

It was while in California that she first heard [Sun Ra](/source/Sun_Ra), [Ravi Shankar](/source/Ravi_Shankar), and [Alice Coltrane](/source/Alice_Coltrane) in a concert at the [University of California](/source/University_of_California) and she taught herself chords and harmony. She returned to Connecticut in June 1971 and started playing in local bands. In 1979 she moved to [Montreal, Quebec](/source/Montreal%2C_Quebec), Canada. A member of the Montreal Musicians' Union, she worked extensively in Montreal and around [Quebec](/source/Quebec).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19840322&id=diwyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1167,893904&hl=en |title=Pianist Trudy Silver set to liven up L'Air |publisher=The Montreal Gazette |date=Mar 22, 1984}}</ref> In 1981 Silver moved to New York City.

Her work includes the political multimedia composition ''Where's the Outrage'', a combination of music, [Butoh](/source/Butoh) mime by Sanae Buck and film which was included in the 2016 Dissident Arts Festival,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr201609.pdf |title=New York Jazz Record |page=4}}</ref> as well as other events. She is an activist, and is also involved in political actions, and made the Village Voice "Honor Roll"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2004/08/31/the-honor-roll/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906035915/https://www.villagevoice.com/2004/08/31/the-honor-roll/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 6, 2017 |title=The Honor Roll |publisher=Village Voice |date=9 July 2004 |page=42 |access-date=5 September 2017}}</ref> of "the 1,793 people arrested during the week of the [2004 Republican National Convention](/source/2004_Republican_National_Convention)."

She co-founded the 5C Cultural Center & Café<ref>{{cite web |url=http://5cculturalcenter.org/ |title=5C Cultural Center & Café}}</ref> on the [Lower East Side](/source/Lower_East_Side) of Manhattan with her husband, Bruce Morris. Together they have produced over 400 events since 1995.

==Discography==
* ''Heroes/Heroines'' (1987)
* ''Silver Plays featuring Will Connell'' (1992)
* ''Damn the Rules!'' (2002)

== Bibliography ==
* "Guantánamo NY Blues 2004", ''And Then'', Volume 13, 2007 (ISSN 1520-4111)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://trudysilver.com/}}
* [https://www.courant.com/2011/05/29/trudy-silver-renunites-with-aunt-lils-piano-sunday-2/  ''The Courant''. May 29, 2011]

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