Alexander Paley Music Festival
· Festival Musicians: Daphne Gerling ·
Violist Daphne Gerling was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. A graduate of the Walnut Hill School and New England Conservatory, she holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Rice University.
Her performances have taken her to leading venues in the U.S., Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Austria, England, the Netherlands, and Germany, and to music festivals including Aspen, Bowdoin, Encore, NYU, Sarasota, Bad Leonfelden, Norfolk (UK), Staunton (VA), Düsseldorf-Benrath, Internationale Handel Festpspiele Karlsruhe, and Neuburg, Bavaria.
From 2005-2007 Dr. Gerling was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Music in England, and violist of the Anglian Ensemble. She performs frequently with the Richmond Symphony (VA), and has recently been a guest artist at James Madison University, Rice University, Illinois State University, Florida State University, University of South Carolina, Sewanee, University of Tennessee, Middle Tenessee State University, Texas Tech University, University of Virginia, and the Federal Universities of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Uberlândia, Brazil.
From 2008-2010 she served as Lecturer in Viola at Valdosta State University (GA), Principal Violist of the Valdosta Symphony, violist of the Azalea String Quartet, and Director of the South Georgia String Project. In summers she is on the faculty at the Rafael Trio Chamber Music Workshops in New Hampshire and the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, with whom she has broadcast twice for National Public Radio.
She spent the 2010-11 year studying baroque performance practice in Amsterdam and Cologne. She joins the faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music as Artist Teacher of Viola in the fall 2011.