She started her musical studies at the Bucharest Royal Academy of Music – piano with Constanța Erbiceanu (a disciple of Carl Reinecke, Max Reger and Moritz Moszkowski, and one of the founders of the Romanian piano school), harmony and counterpoint with Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac and Alfonso Castaldi, graduating at the same time the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Bucharest.

[8] In addition, a genuine, existential interpretative involvement in Silvia Șerbescu's playing may explain the powerful impact she had on her audience.

[9] Silvia Șerbescu performed in France, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, with renowned conductors as George Georgescu, Ionel Perlea, Constantin Silvestri, Sergiu Comissiona, Ernest Ansermet, Nikolai Anosov, Aleksandr Gauk, Vaclav Neumann, Paavo Berglund and many others.

Many of her students made significant careers, as Mihai Brediceanu, Constantin Ionescu-Vovu, Theodor Paraschivescu, Alexander Šumski, Lavinia Coman, Sanda Bobescu, Georgeta Ștefănescu-Barnea, Liana Șerbescu, Sever Tipei, Peter Szaunig and others.

[17] A bust of Silvia Șerbescu by Gheorghe D. Anghel nowadays greets new generations of students in the main hall of the Bucharest University of Music.

[18] Silvia Șerbescu's repertoire included works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Busoni, Respighi, Enescu, De Falla, Albeniz and, notably, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.