Cellist and composer Peri Mauer will be revisiting her composition "Dutchess Starlight Revisited" in a solo set on cello at Zinc Bar on Wednesday, March 22nd at 7PM. Zinc Bar is located at 82 West 3rd Street, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, NYC. There is a $10 cover charge at tables, and seating at the bar is free."Dutchess Starlight Revisited" was premiered in 2012 at DROM, with Peri Mauer on cello,
Elliott Sharp on guitar, and
Art Baron on trombone.
https://www.zincbar.com/homepage.
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 in NYC. 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. Most recently her commissioned orchestral work All Along the Heights was premiered by the Jackson Heights Orchestra to critical acclaim. A recipient of multiple 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, and the revision of her flute, harp, marimba trio Pixeliance performed at
Vassar College in harpist
Ashley Jackson's Electric Lady concert series. Also 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, among many others, and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden Globe and Emmy winning Amazon TV series Mozart in the Jungle.
Visit her at https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer.
