The son of a legendary folk guitarist and singer, Antoine Silverman was encouraged to take classical violin lessons at the age of three. By 5, he had discovered bluegrass as well, accompanying his father and playing fiddle contests throughout the eastern United States. By age 14 he began playing jazz, adding to his versatile consummate musicianship. Today, violinist Antoine Silverman performs jazz, country, classical and bluegrass regularly, including touring, recording, and playing and teaching music festivals.

After completing his degree from Columbia University and the Juilliard School, Antoine relocated to Nashville to collaborate with artists such as Shania Twain, Lyle Lovett, the Beach Boys, Vanessa Williams, Sixpence None the Richer and Garth Brooks. In 1996, he fiddled with Lyle Lovett on the David Letterman Show. After releasing his first album, Swing Shift, in 1998, he moved back to New York to begin a busy performing and recording career. In 2001, he recorded a second album on jazz violin entitled Blue Moods. This past summer Antoine frontlined at the prestigious Litchfield Jazz Festival in Connecticut, playing with Ted Rosenthal, Quincy Davis, Jeff Carney and Pat Bergeson. He was also on faculty, teaching jazz violin and theory.

Antoine maintains a full workload playing 8 shows a week and writing music, but makes time to work in the studio and onstage with others, including Rod Stewart, Ray LaMontagne, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks, Sinead O'Connor, Moby, Steve Tyrell, Ben Folds Five, Linda Eder, Ben Kweller, Anne Hampton Callaway and Lou Reed. Well acquainted with the Broadway show circuit, he has performed solo violin, fiddle, guitar and mandolin for The Green Bird, Civil War, Footloose, Spitfire Grill, A Man of No Importance, Urban Cowboy, Fiddler on the Roof, and now Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

No stranger to recording for film and television, Antoine recorded soundtracks such as Frida, S.W.A.T., Changing Lanes, the new series Little Einstein, and Nero Wolfe on A&E . He has played swing fiddle for numerous national TV commercials including ATT, American Express, Pepsi, Ponderosa and Coca Cola, to name a few. He also creates the fiddle sounds for Elmo on Sesame Street.