Peri Mauer Will Premiere AN AUTUMN PASSING For English Horn And Piano

Composer Peri Mauer's new piece "An Autumn Passing" for English horn and piano will be premiered Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 7:30pm at Marc A. Scorca Hall at National Opera Center,330 7th Ave., NYC.

It will be performed by Gregory Weissman on English horn and Jeremy Vigilon piano in A Concert of New Music presented by the New York Composers Circle.Also on the program are new works by Richard Brooks, Monroe Golden, Eric Heilner, David Mecionis, Kyle McGucken, and David See.

The excellent lineup of performers include Vasko Dukovski, Dan Barrett, Erin Lansing, Bob Lukomski, and Ammon Swinbank.Admission is $20 at the door, and students are free.

A reception will follow the concert.

For more information, visit http://newyorkcomposerscircle.org/In-the-Loop/Entries/2019/3/march-19-concert-flier.html.

Native New Yorker PERI MAUER has written works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and theater. Her music has received performances in Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter and Labor Day Festivals, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Great Noise Ensemble, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music in Bowdoin, ME, Concrete Timbre New Music Series, Music With A View Festival at the Flea Theater for which she also served as cellist and conductor, Composers Concordance Composers Play Composers Festival, among many others. She is the recipient of multiple ASCAP Plus Awards, commissions to write orchestral works for the New York Repertory Orchestra, Jackson Heights Orchestra, and LaGuardia High School Symphonic Band, and was honored to be a featured composer in the 2017 Composers Now Festival. She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, Bard College, and LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the "Fame" school). Scholastic awards include a National Collegiate Music Prize and membership into Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Honor Society of Music. Upcoming performances of her music include a new set of pieces for violin and piano on May 21, 2019 at the National Opera Center, NYC. Also a professional cellist, she has performed with such groups as American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Darmstadt Ensemble at (le) poisson rouge, NYU Contemporary Players, etc., and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden Globe and Creative Arts Emmy Award winning Amazon TV series Mozart in the Jungle.