Music Of Peri Mauer Comes to the National Opera Center

Peri Mauer's piece for solo piano, A Little New Year's Flair, will be performed by Craig Ketter March 19, 2018, 7:30pm, at the National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, 330 7th Ave., NYC, in a New York Composers Circle Concert of New Music for Piano. A Little New Year's Flair was premiered in 2014 in the Bargemusic Winter Festival by Blair McMillen to critical acclaim. Bargemusic Here and Now Winter Festival in New York City | soundwordsight.com

Also on the program are works by Madelyn Byrne, Max Giteck Duykers, Emiko Hayashi, Scott D. Miller, Dary John Mizelle, Raoul Pleskow, Dana Dimitri Richardson, and Chris Sahar. Admission is $20, students Free. There will be a wine & cheese reception following the concert.http://newyorkcomposerscircle.org/event/solo-piano-recital/?instance_id=33

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, 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