Peri Mauer & Friends to Perform at Bard Graduate Center

On Tuesday June 21st, 3:00-5:00pm, composer and cellist Peri Mauer will present a free concertat the Bard Graduate Center, located at 18 West 86th St., NYC. On the program is music of Haydn,Webern, Peri Mauer, Mozart, David Wolfson, Brahms, Salerni, and Mendelssohn. The excellentperformers are the Bowers-Fader Duo (Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano and Oren Fader, guitar),France Rovelli, violin, Douglas Schultz, piano, Lynn Chao, trumpet, Peri Mauer, cello, Medina Crystal-Gloria, clarinet, and Daniel Sclafani, baritone saxophone. Please join us for a lovelyafternoon of music on the first day of summer in this beautiful venue right off of Central Park.It doesn't get much better than this!http://makemusicny.org/summer-schedule/2016/locations/1098https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer

PERI MAUER 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 received performances in Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter and Labor Day Festivals, 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 Composers Play Composers Festival, 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. In 2014 she 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, resulting in her symphonic band work Red Sky. 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, and Trumpet Trio, premiered November 2015 in Music From Good Shepherd Concert Series. Upcoming premieres includeher string quartet Shadow Lake on Feb 21, 2017 in St. Peter's Church, NYC. She is currently composing All Along the Heights for the Jackson Heights Orchestra scheduled for premiere December 14, 2016, and is in the process of revising her flute, harp,marimba trio Pixeliance for performance at Vassar College and other locations in 2017 with harpist Ashley Jackson's Electric Lady concert series. As a professional cellist, Ms. Mauer 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 winning Amazon TV series Mozart in the Jungle.