On Saturday, April 29, 2017 cellist and composer Peri Mauer will be featured playing with the Illuminati Orchestra for two sets at Club Bonafide, located at 212 East 52nd St., New York, NY 10022. Set times are 9:30 and 11pm. There is a $10 cover charge per set. The Illuminati Orchestra has a rich 30-year NYC history and a much-documented national reputation for both its original music and its critically-praised arrangements of Grateful Dead music, under the composing/arranging pen of Joe Gallant, the group's bassist, founder and leader.
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Hailed as an "irrepressibly tuneful composer" by New York Music Daily/Lucid Culture, PERI MAUER has written works for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles, orchestra, and theater. A native New Yorker, 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 Women Composers Festival of Hartford, 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. Her commissioned orchestral work All Along the Heights was recently premiered by the Jackson Heights Orchestra to critical acclaim. A recipient of ASCAP Plus Awards, 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, 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, Trumpet Trio, premiered in Music From Good Shepherd Concert Series, the revised version of her flute, harp, marimba trio Pixeliance performed at
Vassar College in harpist
Ashley Jackson's Electric Lady concert series, her string quartet Shadow Lake premiered by the Klang Quartet at St. Peter's Church, and an encore performance of the solo trumpet version of Red Sky at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford earlier this month. She was honored to be a featured composer in the 2017 Composers Now Festival which took place during the month of February 2017. Scholastic awards include a National Collegiate Music Prize and membership into Pi Kappa Lambda, the National
Honor Society of Music.
A professional cellist, Ms. Mauer has worked with such groups as American Symphony Orchestra, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Darmstadt Ensemble, Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea, NYU Contemporary Players, American Chamber Opera, Gateway Classical Music Society, The Chelsea Symphony, Playwrights Horizons, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, among many others, and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden Globe and Emmy winning Amazon Prime TV series Mozart in the Jungle. Visit her at https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer.
