Composer Peri Mauer's New Work for Cello to be Premiered at National Opera Center

Composer Peri Mauer's new piece, September 16th, for cello, will be premiered by Craig Hultgren on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 7:30pm, at the National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, 330 7th Avenue, New York, NY in a program of new cello music presented by the New York Composers Circle.

Also on the program are works by Dana Dimitri Richardson, Carl Kanter, Kevin McCarter, Dary John Mizelle, Hubert Howe, Monroe Golden, Debra Kaye, Max Giteck Duykers, andTamara Cashour. Admission is $20, and students are free. There will be a wine and cheese reception following the concert.

Native New Yorker Peri Mauer has written works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and theater. Her music has recently received performances in 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, grants from New Music USA, 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 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. Visit her at https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer