We are thrilled to announce that the winner of our inaugural DMO Concerto Competition is Marisa D’Silva, who will be performing the Ibert Flute Concerto in May 2025 with the DMO.

Marisa D’Silva has been a clinician-educator in Duke Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine and the Durham VA Medical Center since 1997.

Music has been a lifelong passion, starting on piano at 7, then adding flute in order to play in school band and youth orchestra. She attended Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, majoring in neuroscience, piano performance, and flute performance; and performed with the Oberlin Orchestra as a winner of the senior concerto competition.

After medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill, she completed Internal Medicine residency and a chief residency at the University of Chicago, then returned to North Carolina to teach and practice medicine and raise a family.

Marisa has been an active member of the DMO since our inception in 2010, and remains very grateful for this opportunity to bridge the arts of music and medicine, and to share performances with our community.