Daphne Gerling

Violist Daphne Gerling currently enjoys a multi-faceted career as a teacher, chamber musician, recitalist and solo performer. Since the fall of 2011 she has been on the faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music, where she is Artist Teacher of viola and chamber music. 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 Händel Festspiele Karlsruhe, and Neuburg, Bavaria. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, she is a graduate of the Walnut Hill School and New England Conservatory, and holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Rice University, where she studied primarily with Jeffrey Irvine, Lynne Ramsey, Karen Ritscher and James Dunham. She furthered her studies with Thomas Riebl, Simon Rowland-Jones and Heidi Castleman, among others. 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 has recently been a guest artist or clinician at James Madison University, Rice University, Illinois State University, Florida State University, University of South Carolina, Sewanee, University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University, Texas Tech University, University of Virginia, and the Federal Universities of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasília (UNB), Belo Horizonte (UFMG), Santa Catarina (UDESC), Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio) 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 the  2010-11 season she was invited by the VSO to return as soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante. Every year since 2007 she has served as coordinator for viola and chamber music at the Festival de Cordas Nathan Schwartzman in Uberlândia Brazil, where she also made several concerto appearances. As an adjudicator she recently served on the panel for the 2013 Houston Symphony Orchestra league competition. 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, and served as principal violist for the Karlsruhe International Händel Festspiele Opernwerkstatt at the Badische Stadtstheater. This season she joins the roster of Dallas’ Chamber Music International Series performing Brahms’ String Sextet Op. 18, and was a featured artist of Colorado Mesa University's Artist Recital Series. Other solo and chamber performances in recent years have revealed a wide-ranging repertoire including works by Duruflé, Hahn, Schulhoff, Kurtág, Larsen, Fauré, Milhaud, Enesco, Bach, Gubaidulina, Debussy and others. Dr. Gerling is married to Coulter George, a professor of classics at the University of Virginia, with whom she enjoys traveling around the world.