Beth Silver

Beth Silver is an award-winning chamber musician who thrives on intuition and creativity. She is active in many facets of Toronto’s music community and is admired for her expressive, compelling playing and her ability to paint in many colours through her instrument, connecting onstage with fellow musicians and audiences alike.

A versatile artist and lover of many genres, Beth feels equally at home in a traditional classical ensemble as she does in a band, arranging, improvising, and exploring new voices for the cello. Her performances with various projects have taken her to numerous festivals across Canada and around the world.

She has been presented nationally as part of the Ladom Ensemble, in a duo with pianist Jenna Richards, and is also the newest member of the Eastern European polyphonic singing group BLISK. Beth has become a leading cellist in the global klezmer music scene—her ongoing research in Jewish and Eastern European music has taken her repeatedly to Romania, where she has spent months working with traditional fiddle players throughout Transylvania.