Daryl Silberman studied viola at the University of Colorado at Boulder (BM), San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and U.S.C. She is the former Product Specialist for Orchestral Strings at the Yamaha Corporation of America and is a national clinician for Knilling String Instruments. She has a private teaching studio and freelances as a violist and violinist in Los Angeles area with regional orchestras, movie studio orchestras, chamber groups, and baroque ensembles. In addition, Daryl is a licensed Kindermusik instructor and enjoys teaching early childhood music.

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 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 has 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" have resulted in her performing in over 35 states addressing audiences of all ages.

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. 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, and has been invited to guest conduct and solo with student orchestras. 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. This past summer ('07) she taught at Robert Gillespie's Teacher Workshop at OSU, at Chamber Music Connections in Columbus, Ohio, was the guest artist at "Fiddlin' Around In Georgia" sponsored by GASTA, and will be performing clinics at the NYSSMA summer workshop.

After living in the Los Angeles area for the past 4 years, Daryl and her family are moving to Salem, Oregon where Daryl has accepted a position as the West Salem High School Orchestra director. It's a dream job for Daryl and she looks forward to everything the Pacific Northwest has to offer.