The Score | Silver Jubilee

This season Susan Deaver marks a quarter century as music director of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra on New York’s Long Island. The community ensemble, celebrating its own 55th anniversary in 2015-16, opened a four-concert season November 14 with Dvorák’s Carnival Overture, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and violin concertos by Bruch and Prokofiev. Deaver, shown below rehearsing the orchestra in early October, has overseen a number of artistic initiatives since assuming the podium in 1990, including a biennial Young Artist Award for high school musicians and an Artist-in-Residence program that recruits high-caliber professionals to serve as concertmaster and mentor for the orchestra. In addition to local high schools, NSSO concert venues have included the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at Long Island University.