Daryl Silberman is the orchestra director at West Salem High School in Salem, Oregon.  The program boasts 3 string orchestras and a full symphony orchestra.  Daryl studied viola at the University of Colorado at Boulder (BM), San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and University of Southern California.  She is the former Product Specialist for Orchestral Strings at the Yamaha Corporation of America and was a national clinician for years for Knilling String Instruments.  She was a private studio teacher and freelance violist and violinist in Los Angeles and San Fransisco Bay Area performing with regional orchestras, movie studio orchestras, chamber groups, and baroque ensembles.  In addition, Daryl has developed early childhood music curriculum and enjoys teaching young children when not working with teenagers.

Daryl plays many contemporary styles on both her traditional instruments and a 5-stringed electric violin.  She co-founded the acoustic folk rock band "Naked to the World" and the instrumental group "littlworld."  She is currently playing with husband Danny Seidenberg in a group he founded called UnBande featuring 2 electric violas. She has played and/or recorded with Guns and Roses, Depeche Mode, Al Stewart, Michael Sherwood, Larisa Stow, Darryl Purpose, Robert Morgan Fisher, E.B. Fraley, and many other singer-songwriters and bands.  For over 10 years Daryl toured nationally as a clinician for Knilling performing in the schools on her traditional, classical violin and her 5-stringed acoustic-electric violin.  Her clinics, entitled "Connections: Inspiring String Students by Connecting Classical and Contemporary Music" resulted in her performing in over 35 states addressing audiences of all ages.

In the summer, Daryl participates in many national teacher and student music workshops.  Daryl has directed her own "Alternative Styles String Camp" at the Crowden School in Berkeley, CA and has been a guest artist at many summer workshops, including Vandercook's MECA program in Chicago, IL.  Daryl has been a guest clinician at the Alan DeVeritch Viola Institute in Malibu, Indiana University at Bloomington, the SUNY Fredonia NSOA-ASTA summer camp, Birch Bay summer workshop, New World Symphony outreach program, Robert Billespie's Teacher Workshop at OSU, Chamber Music Connections in Columbus, OH, and many other state ASTA summer teacher workshops.  Additionally, Daryl has presented at numerous state and national MENC (Music Educator National Conference) and ASTA (American String Teacher Association) conventions.  She has served as the chair of the 2006 ASTA Alternative Styles Committee.  She was invited to present clinics at the Australian String Teachers Convention in Brisbane in July 2006.

When not performing, teaching, or presenting, Daryl enjoys yoga, the Willamette Valley wine culture, and spending time with her two elementary school-aged kids.