Peri Mauer's String Quartet SHADOW LAKE Will Receive Encore Performance

Peri Mauer's string quartet Shadow Lake will receive an encore performance by Klang Quartet January 15, 2019,7:30pm at The Little Church Around the Corner: Church of the Transfiguration located at 1 East 29th St., NYC.Shadow Lake was composed in 2016 and premiered the following year.The composer writes: "I first heard the phrase "music of place" around the time I decided to write a string quartet and found the concept intriguing. The "place" I envisioned was a setting of a lake brought to life by shadows cast within the motion of the water. After coming up with the name Shadow Lake I did a Google search and found there are indeed a few bodies of water with that name. This particular Shadow Lake is not based on any of them though, existing solely as the manifestation of inspiration for the writing of this string quartet."

This performance is part of program of string quartets and string trios presented by the New York Composers Circle.http://newyorkcomposerscircle.org Admission is $20, and students are free. A reception will follow the concert.

Native New Yorker PERI MAUER has written works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and theater. Her music has received performances in Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter and Labor Day Festivals, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music in Bowdoin, ME, Music With a View Festival at the Flea Theater for which she also served as conductor and cellist, Composers Concordance Composers Play Composers Marathon, Concrete Timbre New Music Series, New York Composers Circle Concerts of New Music, among many others.

She is the recipient of multiple ASCAP Plus Awards, commissions to write orchestral works for the New York Repertory Orchestra, Jackson Heights Orchestra, and LaGuardia High School Symphonic Band, and was honored to be a featured composer in the 2017 Composers Now Festival. Upcoming performances include her trio Afterwords, for clarinet, cello, and piano, by Great Noise Ensemble in Bethesda, MD on February 16, 2019, An Autumn Passing for English horn and piano at the National Opera Center on March 19, 2019, and a new set of pieces for violin and piano at the National Opera Center on May 21, 2019.

She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, Bard College and LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the "Fame" school). Also a professional cellist, she has performed with such groups as American Symphony Orchestra, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Darmstadt Ensemble, NYU Contemporary Players, and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden Globe and Creative Arts Emmy Award winning Amazon TV series Mozart in the Jungle. Visit her at https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer