He has performed on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Philharmonie de Paris, Munich’s Gasteig, Mozarteum Salzburg, La Scala in Milan, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

De Silva began his piano studies with his mother, the late Primrose De Silva, and with the late Mary Billimoria. He spent six years at the Royal Academy of Music in London as a student of Hamish Milne, Sidney Griller, and Wilfred Parry. He received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School, studying piano with Martin Canin, chamber music with Felix Galimir, and working closely with violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. He was awarded a special prize as Best Accompanist at the Ninth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award, presented to him by Itzhak Perlman at the 2005 Classical Recording Foundation Awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall. De Silva has recordings available on Deutsche Grammophon, Universal, CBS/Sony Classical, Collins Classics, Chandos, and RCA Victor.