C.W. Post Orchestra to Present All-American Orchestral Concert
Monday, November 21 at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

November 2, 2005 – Brookville, NY – The C.W. Post Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Susan Deaver, will present a concert of American orchestral music on Monday, November 21. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville.

Guest Artists include Jinhyoun Baek, Guest Conductor from Korea: Brian Siemers, Graduate Assistant Conductor; and composer Joshua Feltman.  Also included in the program will be a performance by flutist Lauren Avellino, Winner of the 2005 C.W. Post Concerto Competition.  Ms. Avellino will perform Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Flute & Orchestra

The program will include music by American composers Morton Gould, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, LeRoy Anderson and John Philip Sousa.  A recent work by the young award winning American composer Joshua Feltman entitled “Commute” will be given its East coast premier at the November 21st concert.  There undergraduate students will be featured in a performance of LeRoy Anderson’s Buglers’ Holiday.

Tickets are $8 general admission and $5 for seniors and students. Tickets will be available at the door one hour prior to the performance (7 p.m.). For additional information, call the C.W. Post Department of Music at 516-299-2474 or the C.W. Post Orchestra Concert Information Line at 516-299-3007 or visit www.liu.edu/svpa/music/orchestra.

Susan Deaver, conductor, is the Music Director and Conductor of the C. W. Post Orchestra. She has assisted Tilles Center in coordinating a residency with the New York Philharmonic that involves both the C.W. Post Orchestra and selected youth orchestras in a series of sectionals, panel discussions and open rehearsals with members of the Philharmonic.  Experienced at working with young musicians, Dr. Deaver is currently Long Island Youth Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor and has conducted LIYO in performances in Scotland, England, Spain and at Tilles Center. She was a conductor for the Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Ensemble from l987 to l989 and has been a guest conductor for numerous all-county and district festival orchestras. Currently she teaches flute and orchestral conducting to undergraduate and graduate students at C.W. Post.  In May 2004 she guest conducted in Korea the Pusan Festival Orchestra and the Masan City Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Deaver was selected to participate in Tanglewood’s Conducting Seminar Classes, the conducting seminars of the American Symphony Orchestral League, the Conductor’s Guild and at Manhattan School of Music with Kurt Masur, Julius Rudel and Sixten Ehrling.  Dr. Deaver is on the Music Faculty of C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University, Stony Brook University and the Manhattan School of Music’s Preparatory Division.  At C.W. Post she is the Director of Woodwind Studies and also the Co-Founder/Co-Director of C.W. Post’s Annual Chamber Music Festival.  Her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are from Manhattan School of Music where she received her Doctorate in Musical Arts. 

Flutist Lauren Avellino received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Performance from Ithaca College where she studied with Karin Ursin, Kelly Covert and Dr. Wendy Mehne.  At Ithaca, she performed with groups such as the Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and Wind Ensemble, and gave performances at Lincoln Center and the ABA National Convention in Williamsburg, VA.  This past summer, Ms. Avellino participated in the 2005 C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival where she performed with the Festival Orchestra as well as several small chamber groups.  Ms. Avellino is currently an elementary instrumental teacher in the Oyster Bay East-Norwich school district and is working towards her Masters in Music with Susan Deaver at LIU.

Other upcoming performances include a repeat performance of "Commute" by the CW Post Orchestra at Long Island University. The performance will take place on campus at the Tilles Center on November 21, 2005.

Mr. Feltman was selected as the ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein fellow for the 2004 Tanglewood season and thus earned the opportunity to write a new work for conductor Frank Battisti and the BUTI wind ensemble.  His music, created this summer to accompany a collaborative project with experimental filmmakers, was described as “elegant crossover style” by the Boston Globe.  His music is published by Mostly Marimba Publications and by Southern Music Company. Mr. Feltman currently resides in New York City.

Justan Dakes, trumpet, will be graduating this May with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Instrumental Performance from the School of Visual and Performing Arts.  In addition to the Orchestra, Justan is also involved in many other ensembles at C.W. Post, including the Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble (principal trumpet), Jazz Ensemble (lead trumpet), Brass Ensemble, Pep Band, and Chorus. As a freelance musician, he has played lead trumpet in several pit orchestras in New Jersey for shows such as The Music Man, Bye Bye Birdie, Brigadoon, Anything Goes, Crazy for You, Hello Dolly!, and Kiss Me Kate.  Recently, Justan had the honor of performing with the Eighth Annual National Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, under the direction of H. Robert Reynolds.

Nicholas Shmorhun, trumpet, earned his bachelor‚s degree from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and his master‚s degree from Ithaca College. He is currently employed in the Valley Stream School District where he serves as an elementary school band director.  In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Mr. Shmorhun performs regularly with several local orchestras including the Massapequa Philharmonic, the North Shore Symphony Orchestra, and the Island Chamber Symphony. He also enjoys performing weddings and ceremonies at several Long Island churches.

Michael Coleman, trumpet, is a sophomore at C.W. Post enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, majoring in Chemistry. During high school he studied trumpet for three years with Dr. James Madeja from the Crane School of Music and participated in two Area All-State Festivals in addition to participating in four NYSSMA solo contests. In 2004 he graduated from Indian River High School which is located in upstate New York. An enthusiastic musician, Michael is currently a member of the C.W. Post Orchestra, the Symphonic Band, the Brass Ensemble and the Pep Band.

Conductor Jinhyoun Baek is currently traveling as a guest conductor and musician around the world to countries such as Europe, Russia, U.S.A., China and Asia. Jinhyoun Baek has been the Conducting Professor at Busan Arts College since 1995 where he conducts the Busan Wind Orchestra and teaches conducting to undergraduate and graduate students. An active conductor in Korea, he has been the conductor of the Busan Festival Orchestra since 1998, and has been the Music Director and Conductor of the Mansan Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003. He was recently appointed conductor of the Silla Orchestra,

Born in Korea in 1963, Jinhyoun Baek began playing music when he was 10 years old. He began his professional career as the Principal Horn of the Daegu Philharmonic.  He received a Bachelor's Degree from Keimyung University in Korea, a Master's Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, and Post-Graduate Diploma from the Brooklyn

Conservatory of Music.  His horn studies were with David Jolley at Manhattan School of Music and from Scott Brubaker at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

Jinhyoun Baek was awarded a full scholarship to study advanced conducting at the University of Hartford. There he studied orchestral conducting with Harold Farberman and received an Artist Diploma.  He was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Far Eastern State Academy of Fine Arts in Russia where he studied Opera-Symphony Conducting with Sergei Borshev.  His Doctor of Musical Art Thesis was entitled Historical Conception and Development of Orchestral Conducting.

Brian Siemers, Graduate Assistant Conductor 2005-2006, received his Bachelor’s of Music in Music Education at C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University where he studied classical saxophone with Tim Ruedeman. While earning his undergraduate degree he was a performing member of the Symphonic Band, the Wind Ensemble and the Jazz Ensemble.  As a chamber musician, he was a member of the undergraduate saxophone quartet that performed in master classes, student recitals and participated in chamber music coachings with the Shanghai Quartet. He was also selected to perform with the C.W. Post Orchestra as a soloist in Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.