Daryl Silberman, bio
Daryl Silberman
Daryl Silberman (“Ms. S”) is an orchestra director at Scullen Middle School in Naperville, IL (District 204) and the director of Sinfonietta Strings and Philharmonia Strings for the Youth Symphony of DuPage. She also serves as the Assistant Director of the OPUS summer chamber music camp in Naperville.
Previously, she served as the orchestra director at Waubonsie Valley High School (2013–2023) and has been on staff with West Salem High School in Salem, OR, the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Hyde Park Youth Orchestra, and the Kaneland Youth Orchestra in Illinois.
An accomplished musician, Daryl has performed professionally as a violinist with the Fox Valley Symphony and currently performs with the City Lights Orchestra, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, New Vintage Strings, and other Chicago-based ensembles. She has also collaborated with her husband, Danny Seidenberg, in unique performing groups, and her acoustic folk-rock band, Naked to the World - co-founded in the 1990s with singer-songwriter Kevin Fisher - continues to record and perform. She also performs with Los Angeles-based artist Arielle Silver whenever possible. Daryl plays and teaches with a 5-string violin.
Daryl studied viola at the University of Colorado Boulder, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the University of Southern California. Over her career, she has been a private studio teacher, high school orchestra director, and freelance violist and violinist in Salem, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Chicago area. She has performed with regional orchestras, movie studio ensembles, chamber groups, rock bands, and baroque ensembles. In California, she co-founded the Whittier Area Youth Orchestra.
A sought-after guest conductor and clinician, Daryl has worked with middle and high school orchestras across the country, including Michigan's MSBOA Middle School All-State Orchestra, Illinois ILMEA Districts 2, 3, and 9, and Ohio OMEA District 1. Upcoming conducting engagements include the Salem-Keizer D24 Honors Middle School Orchestra (Jan 2026) and the California CODA Middle School All-State Orchestra (Jan 2026). She has also presented clinics at national and state educator conferences and is part of the ILMEA Clinicians Network, offering workshops for area teachers, including at the Ohio State University String Teacher Workshop (summer 2025). Currently, she serves as a Virtual Instructional Coach for early-career music teachers through the Illinois Education Association (6 years) and as the K–12 Representative on the national board of ASTA, the American String Teacher Association. In 2011, School Band and Orchestra magazine named her one of “50 Directors Who Make a Difference.”
Beyond teaching music, Daryl is a certified yoga instructor (RYT® 200) and mindful educator, having completed coursework through MindfulSchools and YogaRenew. She currently teaches multiple forms of yoga at VASA Fitness in Oswego and Wheaton, IL and at Just Be Yoga in Naperville, IL, where she brings her passions for movement, mindfulness, and community together. She also enjoys leading specialty workshops such as “Team Sport Yoga” and “Healthy Teacher, Healthy Classroom” for educators nationwide.
In her free time, Daryl is an avid yogi, a wine enthusiast, a gluten-free foodie, and a proud mom of two young adults. She is a D’Addario Educational Artist, using Zyex, Helicore, and Kaplan strings, and is the co-author of Rock Philharmonic: Classic Rock Songs for the String Orchestra (Alfred, 2016) with Bob Phillips, as well as the author of Finger Fun: A Workbook for First Position Violin (Mel Bay Publications).