COMPOSER PERI MAUER's MUSING FOR THE CITY For Orchestra To Premiere at Symphony Space

Composer Peri Mauer's new composition for orchestra MUSING FOR THE CITY will premiere June 5, 2026, 8pm, Symphony Space (Broadway at 95th St.), NYC. It will be performed by New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra in celebration of its 50th season, alongside works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky with Alex Wen conducting. www.nasorch.org

Hailed as an “irrepressibly tuneful composer” (New York Music Daily), Peri Mauer’s music has been featured in concerts presented by Quintet of the Americas, Sugar Hill Salon, Da Capo Chamber Players, Bargemusic, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Connecticut Summerfest, Composers Concordance, Access Contemporary Music, New York Repertory Orchestra, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music in Bowdoin, Maine, Bard College, Collide-O-Scope Music, Jackson Heights Orchestra, Vassar College, LaGuardia High School Symphonic Band, among others. She recently received high praise from New York Classical Review for the premiere performance of her orchestral work Woman on a Journey, commissioned by New York Repertory Orchestra, calling it a “gorgeous, moving, imaginative, finely shaped piece.” She is a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund Award for her participation in Composers Now Festival, multiple ASCAP Plus Awards, grants and commissions from Quintet of the Americas, Access Contemporary Music, New York Repertory Orchestra, Jackson Heights Orchestra, LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, New Music USA, Composers Now, Meet the Composer, among others. Also a professional cellist fluent in many styles of music and improvisation, Ms. Mauer has performed with such groups as American Symphony Orchestra, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Darmstadt Ensemble, NYU Contemporary Players, and Access Contemporary Music. A native New Yorker born and raised in the Bronx, she is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Bard College, and Manhattan School of Music. https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer