Susan Deaverhas conducted orchestras in the United States, Europe and Asia.  She is currently Music Director and Conductor of the University Orchestra at Stony Brook University and the North Shore Symphony Orchestra.  She will conduct the University Orchestra in a series of orchestral concerts at Staller Center during the 2011-2012 season as well as conduct the North Shore Symphony Orchestra in its 51st Season.  In addition to conducting the University Orchestra, she teaches conducting at Stony Brook University.  As an orchestral fellowship student at Tanglewood, she worked with both Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa and was selected to participate in Tanglewood's Conducting Seminar Classes with Gustav Meier. She was selected to participate in the New York Philharmonic’s Conductors Table with Zubin Mehta, Alan Gilbert and Leonard Slatkin.  Among her 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, the C.W. Post Orchestra at Tilles Center and contemporary music at both Manhattan School of Music and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.  In Korea she was a guest conductor at the New International Music Festival at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, the Pusan Festival Orchestra and the Masan City Symphony Orchestra.  She conducted the Long Island Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 2007 and 2008, and collaborated with the Youth Chamber Orchestra of Bergen (Norway) on their concert tour to New York City in April 2007. Ms. Deaver was the conducting instructor for actor Freddie Highmore for Warner Brothers’ movie August Rush, which was released in November 2007.  Susan Deaver has assisted Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in coordinating numerous educational residencies with the New York Philharmonic, and visiting artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, James Galway and the Shanghai Quartet. As a flutist and avid chamber musician, she has performed extensively and has been praised by critics for her “superb playing” and “atmospheric virtuosity”.  On numerous occasions she performed as a flute soloist at the Kennedy Center with the Washington Chamber Symphony of which she was Principal Flutist from l981 to 2002.  Her doctoral thesis, entitled "The Group for Contemporary Music, 1962-1992," deals with both the historical and performance aspect of one of America's foremost contemporary music ensembles.  In addition to her conducting at Stony Brook University, Susan Deaver is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of Long Island Youth Orchestra, and on the faculty of Stony Brook University, Manhattan School of Music's Precollege Division and C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.  In addition, she is co-founder and currently the director of the C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival, which is held each July, and most recently collaborated with members of the Emerson String Quartet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center this past summer.