Sylvain Barrès is a flute player originally from Brive-la-Gaillarde in Corrèze, France. He began studying music at a young age at the Brive-la-Gaillarde conservatory before attending the Conservatoire de Toulouse. After two years at the conservatory in Rueil-Malmaison with Pascale Feuvrier, he entered the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in 2015, where he studied with Silvia Careddu, Matthieu Gauci-Ancelin, Thomas Beyer, Egor Egorkin, and Renate Greiss-Armin.

Sylvain Barrès has participated in several international competitions, including the International ARD Competition in Munich, Geneva Competition. In 2021, he won first prize at the Dutch Flute Competition in the Netherlands.

Sylvain Barrès has had a passion for orchestras from a young age and has been a member of numerous youth orchestras. In 2022, he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. After 2 years playing as co-Solo Flute of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie, he is named Solo Flute in Komische Oper in Berlin. He is also regularly invited to perform as Solo Flute with other orchestras like the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Staatsoper Hamburg…

In addition to his work with orchestras, Sylvain Barrès is also an accomplished chamber musician, with a repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music.

In 2023, he played as soloist the Nielsen Flute Concerto with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie.