Holding a masters degree from the University of Évora, Sérgio Silva began studying organ at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon under João Vaz, and accompaniment and improvisation under António Esteireiro. In addition, he had the opportunity to work with a number of organists of international renown, such as José Luis González Uriol, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Jan Willem Jansen, Michel Bouvard, Kristian Olesen and Hans-Ola Ericsson. As a concert performer, he appears regularly both as a soloist and a member in a number of prestigious Portuguese ensembles, and has performed in Portugal, Spain, Italy. Great Britain, France, Germany and Macau. As a researcher, he has made a number of transcriptions of early Portuguese music. He currently teaches organ at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon and at the Lisbon School of Sacred Music, and is titular organist of the Basilica of Estrela and of the Church of St Nicholas in Lisbon. He recently recorded one of the volumes of the complete recording of the Flores de música by Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (Resonus).