Fernando Berwig Silva

Credentials: BA, Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Brazil / MSM, Southern Methodist University /Ph.D., Southern Methodist University (Present)

Denomination: Lutheran

Specific Field: Religion and Culture

Biography:

A drummer since his teenage years, Fernando Berwig Silva has experience leading music in churches from diverse cultural backgrounds and has served three years as Coordinator of Arts Ministries at a Lutheran church in Brazil. He has premiered compositions at the intersection of church and concert music in Europe, the United States, and Brazil. Currently, Berwig Silva acts as a committee member for the Christian Congregational Music Conference. His research engages with church music, decolonial, and Latin American scholarship; moreover, Berwig Silva is interested in understanding how ideas of race, ethnicity, and coloniality are expressed in music practices of Latin American Christian communities.