Festival Faculty & Staff

Susan Deaver

Flute, Conductor & Festival Director

Susan Deaver, co-founder of the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival, is flutist of The Pierrot Consort and conductor of the Festival Chamber Orchestra. As a flutist and avid chamber musician, she has been praised by critics for her “superb playing” and “atmospheric virtuosity” as the principal flutist of the Washington Chamber Symphony at the Kennedy Center. She has performed with Long Island Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Queens Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi and on Broadway in “Phantom of the Opera” and has recorded for New World records, CRI, Arabesque Recordings and North/South Consonance. From 1990 to 2016 she was the music director and conductor of North Shore Symphony Orchestra and is currently the conductor of the University Orchestra at Stony Brook University, where she has also conducted the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra (SBSO) in their Composers Reading/Recording Sessions.

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Among Susan Deaver’s conducting credits are the Washington Chamber Symphony at the Kennedy Center, Thüringen Philharmonie in Gotha, Germany, the Island Chamber Symphony, the Bronx Opera Chamber Orchestra, the Seoul Symphony of New York at Lincoln Center, contemporary music at both Manhattan School of Music and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She has guest conducted in Scotland, England, Spain and Korea and at regional festivals including Nassau All County Festival, All-North New Jersey High School Symphonic Orchestra, 2019 LISFA Festivals. In addition, she has guest conducted at Manhattan School of Music Precollege as well as substitute teaching conducting classes in both the Precollege and college divisions of MSM. In 2018 she was a conducting mentor at the International Women’s Conducting Institute. Newsday featured her work as Conducting Instructor for actor Freddie Highmore in Warner Brothers’ movie “August Rush.” Dr. Deaver is on the music faculty at LIU Post, Stony Brook University and Manhattan School of Music’s Precollege. BM, MM and DMA from Manhattan School of Music. 

Dale Stuckenbruck

Assistant Director & Violin

Grammy-nominated artist Dale Stuckenbruck is immersed in the diverse musical life in New York as a soloist, concertmaster, chamber musician and teacher. His mentor was the great violinist Erick Friedman, with whom he has appeared as soloist with orchestra, in recording and in chamber music. He has performed as violin/saw soloist with the New York Philharmonic, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Philharmonia Virtuosi, New York Virtuosi, New York String Ensemble, Tchaikovsky Chamber, Orchestra, Taipei City Symphony Orchestra, Music at St. Ignatius, Queens Symphony, Masterworks, the Long Island Philharmonic, and as a mandolinist with the Charleston Symphony. He has been featured in Strings Magazine, Wuolgang Umak (Korea), Newsday, Sarasate (Japan) and the New York Times. As one of the leading international artists of the musical saw he has received international acclaim for recording “Sawing to New Heights” with music by Steve Margoshes, "Ancient Voices of Children" by George Crumb on Bridge Records, his performances of the “Divination by Mirrors” by Michael Levine with the New Century Chamber Orchestra and the New York Virtuosi, the "Tonight Show" with KORN, for the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, and as a soloist with Leonid Kavakos and the New York Philharmonic.  As a mandolinist he has appeared at the Met Opera, NYC Opera, ABT, and with Paula Robison at the Met Museum. He has created the music for the short films “Shadows” and “Fresh,” featured at the Whitney Museum and the Israeli Museum, respectively. Since 1975 he has toured with Heawon Kim, pianist, in recitals in Asia, Europe and South America. He is the founder of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra, appearing on "Conan" as a guest. Adjunct full professor at LIU Post, and assistant director of the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival, faculty LIHSA and the Oyster Bay Music Festival. D.M.A. from Manhattan School of Music, 1984.

Veronica Salas

Viola

With her ‘fluidly lyrical’ playing (New York Times), violist Veronica Salas is a versatile performer and teacher who has been featured as soloist, chamber musician and master class artist throughout the world. As soloist Salas has performed with Mostly Mozart, LIU Post Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, USC Symphony, Colonial and Westfield Symphonies. Under the auspices of the State Department, she has given recitals and master classes in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan as well as touring the Greek Isles as violist of the Elysium String Quartet. As violist of Modern Works, the recording of Ge Gan-Ru String Quartets, on the Naxos label, was chosen by critics of The New York Times as a notable recording of 2009. Highlights of other recordings include a Virgil Thomson CD where Salas is featured, an all Mozart CD with Stanley Drucker and the Bach Brandenburg Concerti featuring Lukas Foss. An avid chamber musician, Salas is violist of The Pierrot Consort,  Bronx Art Ensemble, Canta Libre and previous member of Modern Works, Elysium Ensemble and Queens Chamber Band in which she played concertos on viola d’amore.  She has performed chamber music with Yoyo Ma, Eric Friedman, Lawrence Dutton, Joseph Fuchs and Stanley Drucker. Salas is presently principal violist of American Composers Orchestra and Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, and previous principal of Opera Orchestra of New York, Westfield Symphony and Manhattan Philharmonic. She is on the faculties of LIU Post and Bennington Chamber Music Conference. Salas received her B.M.A., M.M.A. and D.M.A. from The Juilliard School where she studied with Lillian Fuchs. 

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Maureen Hynes

Co-founder & cello

Maureen Hynes, co-founder of the LIU Post Chamber Music Festival, enjoys an active career as soloist, conductor, chamber musician, orchestral player, and educator in the New York musical world. She performs regularly with the American Ballet Theater, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra of New York, American Composers Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic, the Bard Festival Orchestra, and the Queens Symphony. She has appeared at the Spoleto and Aspen Festivals, and at the Lake George Opera Festival. Her work in New York has included substitute work in many Broadway shows and the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show. Ms. Hynes was a winner of the Concert Artist Guild Award with the Janus Ensemble, and she is currently a member of the Pierrot Consort. She has performed in Europe, Canada, Korea, and Hong Kong both as cellist and gambist. Professor Hynes was Director of Orchestral and String Studies at LIU Post, where she was professor of cello and conductor of the LIU Post Orchestra, the LIU Post String Ensemble, and the Merriweather Consort. In 2009, she received the Adjunct Faculty Recognition Award from Long Island University for her contributions to the Department of Music.  Conducting engagements include the 2016-2017 season of the Queens Symphony Orchestra, Guest Conductor for the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra in 2019 and numerous regional and state-wide Festivals and clinics. Since 2015, she teaches Introduction to Orchestral Conducting and Advanced Orchestral Conducting at the Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Hynes has given cello Master Classes in Seoul, Korea and on Long Island and has recorded for the Albany label. She is a member of Chamber Music America, Early Music America, NAFME and the American String Teachers Association.

Heawon Kim

Piano

Heawon Kim’s beginnings, as one of Korea’s most well-known prodigies of her generation, appeared at the age of seven with frequent return engagements with  Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic, including an appearance with the KBS for the opening of the Sejong Arts Center. Upon winning numerous competitions and appearing frequently on television and radio she came to the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts in 1972. There she studied with Clifton Matthews, receiving the Vittorio Giannini Award, and appeared under the baton of Nicholas Harsanyi with Prokofiev’s third concerto. Following rave reviews and winning Southeastern Music Teachers Competition she was brought to New York by Claude Frank to study with him at the Mannes School of Music, and continued to complete her studies under Robert Goldsand at the Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Kim has been a soloist with regional orchestras in the United States and has appeared as chamber musician with such groups as the Bronx Arts Ensemble, L’Ensemble, The Pierrot Consort, Rosewood Chamber Ensemble, Garrett Lakes Festival, Leonia Chamber Players, and the Colonial Symphony. She was a frequent recital collaborator for the late Erick Friedman for over 30 years and as a soloist under his baton. Other collaborations have included such international artists as Dennis Brott, Sergiu Luca, Marion Davies, Sanford Allen, Barry Finclair, and her husband, Dale Stuckenbruck. She was on the music faculty at LIU Post for many years as an instrumental coach and is very active in the Korean musical community, performing for fundraising concerts of displaced persons from North Korea. She has worked with Dale Stuckenbruck to create the organization for young talent called "Kammermusik" with whom she has performed numerous concertos including those by Clara Wieck-Schumann, Liszt, and Mendelssohn. Heawon Kim is on the faculty for the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival and has been the pianist with The Pierrot Consort since 1988.