Silvia Careddu made an outstanding start to her career by unanimously winning the First Prize and the Audience prize at the 66th Concours International de Musique de Geneva.

Following this award, Lorin Maazel invited Silvia to become the principal flautist in his newly founded orchestra, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. She later joined the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Wiener Philharmoniker - Wiener Staatsoper.

Since November 2021, Silvia Careddu is Principal Flute of the Orchestra National de France in Paris.

She has been guest principal flautist as well with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. In 2012, Silvia became artistic partner of the Kammerakademie Potsdam, winner of the Echo-Preis 2015 for the best German orchestra.

Silvia is a founding member of the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, a chamber music group with which she records for Deutsche Grammophon.

She is regularly invited to important festivals as a soloist and as a chamber music partner. Among these festivals are Schleswig Holstein, Salzburg Festspiel, Cartagena, Festival Berlioz, Festival des Arcs, Burgenstock Festival, Australian National Academy for Music, Festival de Pollenca, Festival de Salon, Musiktage Mondsee, Riva del Garda, Hitzacker Festival, Flautissimo, Festival de Colmar and Styriarte.

Recently appointed as flute professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique “A. Cortot” in Paris, teaches in Italy as well, at the Scuola de Musica di Fiesole and at the Martha Academy in Palermo. Between 2009 and 2020, she taught at the Hochschule fur Musik “Hanns Eisler” and at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin.

She regularly gives masterclasses in Europe and Asia and has served as juror for the Concours de Geneve, the A. Nicolet Competition and the Prague Spring International competition.

Silvia Careddu was born in Cagliari, Italy. She studied at the Conservatoire de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she graduated with distinction.

She owes important influences and artistic impulses to A. Nicolet, R. Ghiani, R. Guiot, F. Souchard and E. Pahud.