Mr. Silvia is a graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, with a degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy. Returning to Washington, he has since been involved with a wide variety of organizations: operatically with Bellevue Opera, Skagit Opera, Puget Sound Opera, Seattle Opera Guild, The Ladies Music Club, Seattle Civic Light Opera, Eastside Music Theater, and the University of Washington, and chorally with Cascadian Chorale, Issaquah Chorale, Annas Bay Music Festival, and Plymouth Congregational Church. In local opera he has performed as Luther/Crespel in Tales of Hoffman, Chief of Police in Amelia Goes to the Ball, Alidoro in Cinderella, Basilio in Barber of Seville, Colline in La Bohème, and Mikado in Pearls of the Orient.