Peri Mauer Premieres LIFE ON EARTH at Music With a View Festival Tonight
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 19, 2013
Composer and cellist Peri Mauer will premiere her new work LIFE ON EARTH tonight, June 19, 7 PM, as part of the Music With a View Festival 2013 at the Flea Theater (41 White St. NY, NY). The piece is for chamber orchestra. Mauer will be conducting and playing cello.
Requiring an ensemble of 15 musicians playing acoustic instruments, LIFE ON EARTH presents a multi-faceted, eclectic performance piece for chamber ensemble. The music expresses different aspects of life on earth in a unique timbre of tones that Peri Mauer invents, configures, and shapes, overlapping to form a collage of polyrhythmic faceted transparencies. Musicians play in different areas of the stage in varying configurations, while changes of lighting shift degrees of shadow, brightness, and color in sync with the polyrhythmic drive. As the instrumentation, density, and spacial staging differ within and from group to group, the whole projects as a mobile of sound while music moves throughout the performance space.
Peri Mauer (composer/cellist/conductor) received her MM and BM from the Manhattan School of Music, her BA from Bard College, and graduated from the High School of Music and Art. She has composed works for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles, orchestra, and theater. Her music has received performances in Bargemusic's Here and Now Series (including the Bargemusic Labor Day Festival), New York Composers Circle Concerts of New Music at St. Peter's Church and St. Marks Church, Composers Concordance Festival, Music With A View Festivals 2012 and 2011, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music in Bowdoin, ME, Composers Voice Series at Jan Hus Church, NYU Composers Forum, Kaleidoscope Concert Series at WMP Concert Hall, Sound Minds: New Music Series at The Living Theater, Manhattan Composers Orchestra, Cross Island, etc. She has composed incidental music scores to several Off-Broadway classic Theater Productions including Aristophanes' "Thesmophoriazusae" and "Ecclesiazusae", Euripides "The Bacchae", Aphra Behn's "The Emperor of the Moon", and has received grants for her work from New Music USA Composer's Assistance program, Meet the Composer, Composers Guild of Utah, and National Federation of Music Clubs.
Recent premiere performances of her music include "Illuminations of the Night", for orchestra, performed by the New York Repertory Orchestra at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, "Nudibranch Friday", for violin and cello, at Bargemusic's Here and Now Series and Symphony Space, "Quietly, at Dusk", for solo clarinet, in the Composers Voice Concert of New Music at Jan Hus Church "In the Moment", for contralto and cello, (for which she was also cellist) and "Blogarhythm": Scenes 1 & 2 for 24-piece chamber ensemble (which she also conducted) in Music With a View at the Flea Theater, PIXELIANCE, for flute harp and marimba at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, "Dutchess Starlight Revisted", for cello, trombone, and guitar, in Composers Concordance Festival at Drom, "Rhapsodance", for clarinet and piano, in Bargemusic's Here and Now Labor Day Festival, WMP Concert Hall, and New York Composers Circle Concert of New Music at St. Peter's Church, "Blogarhythm on the Rocks", for chamber ensemble, as part of Make Music New York 2011 in Central Park, "Afterwords", for clarinet, cello, and piano by Cross Island, in various locations on Long Island, NY.
As professional cellist, Peri has performed with such groups as American Symphony Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, New YorK Gilbert & Sullivan Players, New York University Contemporary Ensemble, American Chamber Opera Company, Opera Ebony, Playwrights Horizons, and Prospect Theater Company, among others. http://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer
For more about the Flea's festival, go to: http://www.theflea.org/blog_detail.php?page_type=4&blog_id=230.
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