Peri Mauer's SHADOW HARLEQUINADE For Contrabass Flute And Cello To Premiere At Bargemusic Labor Day Festival

Peri Mauer's new piece for contrabass flute and cello, Shadow Harlequinade, will be premiered this weekendin the Bargemusic Here and Now Labor Day Festival. The concerts will take place Friday, August 31 at 8pm,Saturday, September 1 at 6pm, and Sunday, September 2 at 4pm. It will be performed by flutist Lish Lindseyand cellist Timothy Leonard.

Also on the program are works by Gerard Schwarz, Daron Hagen, Yoriaki Matsudaira, David Taylor, and DanielSchnyder. Performers include Mark Peskanov, violin, Julian Schwarz, cello, Yoko Reikano Kimora, shamisen and koto.

General admission is $40 ($35 Senior, $30 Student)
https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/here-and-now-labor-day-festival/

Directions: https://www.bargemusic.org/info-directions/#directions-parking

Native New Yorker PERI MAUER has written works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and theater. Her music has received performances in New York Composers Circle Concerts of New Music, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter and Labor Day Festivals, 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 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. Her music has been played in Marvin Rosen's award winning Classical Discoveries radio program, broadcast from the studios of WPRB Princeton NJ. She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Bard College, and attended 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. Also a professional cellist, she 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, Manhattan Chamber Players, Playwrights Horizons, to name just a few, and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden Globe and Creative Arts Emmy Award winning Amazon TV series Mozart in the Jungle. https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauerhttps://twitter.com/PeriMauerhttps://www.facebook.com/Peri-Mauer