LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts to Perform Peri Mauer's 'Red Sky'

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts will perform Peri Mauer's RED SKY, for symphonic band tonight at 7:30 pm at Little Flower Theater, 100 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY 10023.

LaGuardia Symphonic Band, conducted by Dr. Richard Titone, will also be perofrming Sonny Kompanek's Killer Tango, Mark Camphouse's Yosemite Autumn, and Alfred Reed's El Camino Real.

Tickets are $20 and $15 students. For more information visit alumniandfriends.org.

Hailed as an "irrepressibly tuneful composer" by New York Music Daily/Lucid Culture, composer PERI MAUER has written works for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles, orchestra, and theater. 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 symphonic band work, Red Sky, premiered by the LaGuardia Junior Band. She was honored to be a featured composer in the 2017 Composers Now Festival. Scholastic awards include a National Collegiate Music Prize and membership into Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Honor Society of Music.

Also 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, NYU Contemporary Players, American Chamber Opera, The Chelsea Symphony, Playwrights Horizons, among many others, and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning Amazon TV series Mozart in the Jungle.

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