Peri Mauer's THOUGHT'S TORSION Set for Symphony Space Gala, 6/4

THOUGHT'S TORSION, composer Peri Mauer's trio for flute, viola, and cello will be performed at Symphony Space on June 4, 2016, by Michael Laderman flute, Gregor Kitzis viola, and ArthurCook cello in a New York Composer's Circle Gala Concert. Symphony Space is located at250 West 95th St., NYC. Also on the program is music by Raoul Pleskow, Madelyn Byrne, Patricia Leonard, Hubert Howe, Max Giteck Duykers, Ross Griffey, and Brian Fennelly. Tickets are $20, students free. http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/9217/Music/gala-concert-featuring-2015s-competition-winner
PERI MAUER, composer, was born and raised in NYC where she currently resides. She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Bard College, and is a graduate of the High School of Music and Art. Her music has recently received performances in Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter and Labor Day Festivals, Composer's Voice Concert Series at The Firehouse Space, New York Composers Circle Concerts of New Music at Symphony Space, LeFrak Performing Arts Center, St. Peter's Church and St. Mark's Church, Music With A View Festival at the Flea Theater for which she also served as cellist and conductor, Composers Concordance Festival at DROM, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music in Bowdoin, ME, NYU Composers Forum, among others. A recipient of ASCAP Plus Awards for her work in 2014 and 2015, she is honored to have been awarded a grant from New Music USA for the premiere of her orchestral work Illuminations of the Night by the New York Repertory Orchestra and Life on Earth for chamber ensemble for Music With a View. She also recently received a commission from the Music Department of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts to compose a piece for the LaGuardia Junior Band. Her concert band composition Red Sky was premiered by students of LaGuardia High School this past June to critical acclaim. Other recent premieres include A Little New Year's Flair performed by Blair McMillan in Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter Festival, At Home With Allen Ginsberg: Five Songs for Baritone & Piano performed by baritone Daniel Neer and pianist Christopher Berg, a solo trumpet version of Red Sky, Thought's Torsion for viola, flute, and cello premiered by Eight Strings & a Whistle at Tenri Cultural Institute, performed again a few moths later at Spectrum NYC, Journey, for oboe, and Trumpet Trio, premiered Nov. 2015 in Music From Good Shepherd Concert Series.

Upcoming performances of her music include a new chamber music work, In Concert, for this year's Make Music New York Festival at the Bard Graduate Center on June 21, 2016, All Along the Heights, composed for the Jackson Heights Orchestra scheduled for a December 14, 2016 premiere, Pixeliance, her revised flute, harp, marimba trio at Vassar College January 2017, and Shadow Lake, her new string quartet, scheduled for premiere Feb. 21, 2017 at St. Peter's Church in NYC.

Ms. Mauer is also a freelance cellist and conductor and has worked with such groups as American Symphony Orchestra, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea, NYU Contemporary Players, American Chamber Opera, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Chelsea Symphony, Metro Chamber Orchestra, and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden Globe award-winning TV series Mozart in the Jungle.

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