Swiss harpsichordist, scholar and educator. Silvia Kind was born in Chur (Grisons, Switzerland) in 1907. She studied at the Musikhochschule Berlin with Professor Paul Hindemith, Edwin Fischer and E. Harich-Schneider. During the Nazi regime, she remained in exile in Zurich where she became the assistant and scholar of Hermann Scherchen.

After World War II, she was appointed Professor at the Hochschule for music Berlin where she lectured and was teaching a harpsichord and chamber music class. She died in 2002