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The Pierrot Consort
The Faculty Ensemble-in-Residence at C.W. Post
 Formed in 1981, the Pierrot
Consort was originally modeled after the instrumentation of
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and has always been dedicated to
performing new music as well as the standard repertoire. In 2006,
the Pierrot Consort celebrated its 25th season as faculty at the C.W. Post Chamber Music
Festival which was founded by flutist Susan Deaver and
cellist Maureen Hynes. In addition to its regular concert series
at Long Island University, the Pierrot Consort has performed at
Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, the
Bartok Society at Saranac Lake, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich,
Connecticut, the Stockbridge Chamber Concerts in Great
Barrington, Massachusetts and for the Islip Arts Council. In
November 2000 the ensemble was sponsored by Tilles Center to perform the
original ballet version of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring on
a series of concerts focusing on the music of Copland. In June
2002, the Pierrot Consort presented a concert entitled "Making
Connections: Influences of the Sea in Song, Chamber and
Orchestral Music" for Long Island music and art administrators
and educators at a BOCES conference. In addition, the Pierrot
Consort has collaborated with Tilles Center’s Institute for
Arts & Culture performing for the Summer Seminar for
teachers. The artist members of the ensemble are actively
involved in the musical life of New York City and have a
commitment to the educational life of Long Island. The members
of the Pierrot Consort are Susan Deaver, flute; Dale
Stuckenbruck, violin; Veronica Salas, viola; Maureen Hynes, cello
and Heawon Kim, piano.
Susan Deaver, flute
Susan Deaver is the director and co-founder of the C.W. Post Chamber Music
Festival, flutist of the Pierrot Consort and currently the
Director of the Flute Ensemble
at C. W. Post. She has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Korea in recital, as a
flute soloist with symphony orchestras and in chamber music
performances. She was the principal flutist of the Washington
Chamber Symphony at the Kennedy Center from 1981 to 2002 and has
appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Long Island
Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Queens Symphony
Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi and on Broadway in the "Phantom
of the Opera". She has received fellowships from the Bach Aria
and the Tanglewood Festivals and has recorded for New World
records, CRI and Arabesque Recordings. Active as a conductor,
Ms. Deaver is the conductor and music director of the North Shore
Symphony Orchestra, and was appointed in 2001 as the conductor of the
University Orchestra at SUNY Stony Brook. Ms. Deaver has guest
conducted in Scotland, England, Spain and Korea and is
experienced in working with young musicians and music educators
as both conductor and clinician. She is the Principal Guest
Conductor of the Long Island Youth Orchestra and was a conductor
for Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Ensemble from
1987 to 1989. For the past eight years, she has assisted Tilles
Center in coordinating the New York Philharmonic’s
educational residency with the C.W. Post Orchestra. Her
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are from Manhattan
School of Music where she received her Doctorate in Musical
Arts.
Maureen Hynes, cello
Maureen Hynes, co-founder of the C.W. Post Chamber Music
Festival enjoys an active career as soloist, chamber musician,
orchestral player and teacher 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, New York Virtuosi, the Westchester
Philharmonic and the Long Island Philharmonic. She has also
appeared with the Royal Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, at the
Spoleto and Aspen Festivals and at the Lake George Opera
Festival. Her work in New York also includes substitute work on
Broadway in Les Miserables and The Lion King. 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. In addition to being Professor of Cello and Director
of String Studies at Long Island University/C.W. Post, Ms. Hynes
is director of Orchestral Studies, director of the C.W. Post Orchestra,
String Ensemble and Merriweather
Consort, and has been director of the C.W. Post Pre-College
Music Program. In January of 2003, she was invited to conduct
Division III of the Nassau All-County Festival at Tilles Center.
She is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where she
received her B. M. and M. M. degrees. Her teachers have included
Ardyth Alton, Harvey Shapiro, Laszlo Varga and Daniel
Morganstern.
Heawon Kim, piano
Heawon Kim’s auspicious studies began in her native Korea
appearing at the age of seven with the Korean Broadcasting
Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic. Subsequently she
won numerous competitions, appearing with these orchestras
frequently on television and radio. Upon coming to this country
in 1972 to the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts,
under the guidance of Clifton Mathews, she won the Vittorio
Giannini Award, the Southeastern Music Teachers Competition, and
appeared with the Orchestra of the North Carolina School of the
Performing Arts under Nicholas Harsanyi. Following rave reviews
she was brought to New York by Claude Frank, with whom she
studied at the Mannes School of Music, and subsequently earned
her Master of Music under Robert Goldsand at the Manhattan School
of Music. She has frequently performed for the classes for Josef
Gingold, Janos Starker, Franco Gulli, and Andre Watts. Ms. Kim
has performed as soloist with regional orchestras in the United
States, in chamber music with such groups as the Bronx Arts
Ensemble, Pierrot Consort, Rosewood Chamber Ensemble, Garrett
Lakes Festival, Leonia Chamber Players, and the Colonial
Symphony. She has appeared with the KBS at the opening of the
Sejong Arts Center. She is much in demand as a partner in
recitals with such artists as Erick Friedman, Sanford Allen, and
her husband, Dale Stuckenbruck. She is on the faculty of the C.W.
Post/Long Island University in an innovative new program for
instrumentalists. She is very active in the Korean musical
community of New York as pianist for major recitals.
Veronica Salas, viola
Violist Veronica Salas, a native of Chile, earned her BMA, MMA
and DMA from the Juilliard School as a student of Lillian Fuchs.
She has performed as soloist with the Aspen Festival Orchestra,
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of New York, University of Southern
California Symphony, and last season, with Colonial Symphony, of
which she is principal violist. In February 2002 she performed
the Vivaldi Concerto for Viola and Guitar in Merkin Concert
Hall. An active chamber musician, Ms. Salas is a member of The
Lyrica Chamber Players, The Elysium Ensemble, the Pierrot
Consort, The Modern Works String Quartet, The Bronx Art Ensemble
and The Queens Chamber Band in which she also plays concertos on
the viola d'amore. She has recorded with the New Music Consort
and American Composers Orchestra on the Musical Heritage and
Vanguard labels; in addition, she can be heard on two 1999 from
Elysium Recordings, including Mozart: The Elysium String Quartet
and Friends and Foss Plays Back. Ms. Salas is the principal
violist of Opera Orchestra of New York and Manhattan
Philharmonic, and is on the faculties of Long Island University
and the Bennington Chamber Music Conference.
Dale Stuckenbruck, violin
Dale Stuckenbruck enjoys a diverse interesting musical life in
New York as a soloist, concertmaster, chamber musician, and
teacher. He credits his long-time mentor, the violinist, Erick
Friedman, for his studies first at The North Carolina School of
the Performing Arts until receiving his D.M.A. from the Manhattan
School of Music in 1984. He has performed as soloist with the
Brooklyn Philharmonic, Philharmonia Virtuosi, New York Virtuosi,
New York String Ensemble, Tschaikovsky Chamber Orchestra, Taipei
City Symphony Orchestra, and regional orchestras in the U.S. He
can be heard as concertmaster of many of New York’s premier
musical organizations such as the Brooklyn Philharmonic,
Philharmonia Virtuosi, New York Virtuosi, Dance Theater of
Harlem, Queens Symphony, Masterworks, Music St. Ignatius, and the
Long Island Philharmonic, and "La Boheme" at the Broadway
Theater. He has recorded for CRI the violin concerto by Lou
Pelosi, and is included in recordings for Musical Heritage, SONY,
BMG, Vanguard, Warner, Disney, Kultur Video, and in more than
fifty films. His interests include the violin in earlier
historical settings and the musical saw. He has been featured in
"Strings Magazine", "Korean Monthly Music Magazine", and
"Newsday". He served as a reviewer for "Notes" of new 20th
century violin music. He is joined often by his wife, Heawon Kim
in recitals.
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