Peri Mauer's MUSING FOR THE CITY for orchestra to premiere 6/5/26, 8pm, Symphony Space, NYC

[Peri Mauer]

If you are in the New York City area please join the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the final concert of their 50th Anniversary Season 

June 5, 2026, 8pm, Symphony Space (Broadway at 95th St.), for the premiere of composer Peri Mauer's commissioned work MUSING FOR THE CITY for orchestra, 

alongside Beethoven Name Day Overture, Brahms Symphony No. 3, and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. Alex Wen will be conducting, and Abram Korsunky is 

the piano soloist. General admission is $32, students and seniors are $25, children are $22.

https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-new-amsterdam-symphony-orchestra-18

https://nasorch.org/june-5-2026/

Hailed as an “irrepressibly tuneful composer” (New York Music Daily), Peri Mauer’s music has been featured in concerts presented by Quintet of the Americas, 

Da Capo Chamber Players, Bargemusic, Composers Concordance, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Connecticut Summerfest, Sugar Hill Salon, Access 

Contemporary Music, New York Repertory Orchestra, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music in Bowdoin, Maine, Bard College, 

Collide-O-Scope Music, Jackson Heights Orchestra, Vassar College, LaGuardia High School Symphonic Band, among others. She recently received high praise 

from New York Classical Review for the premiere performance of her orchestral work Woman on a Journey, commissioned by New York Repertory Orchestra, 

calling it a “gorgeous, moving, imaginative, finely shaped piece.” She is a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund Award for her participation in 

Composers Now Festival, multiple ASCAP Plus Awards, grants and commissions from New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, Quintet of the Americas, Access 

Contemporary Music, Sugar Hill Salon, New York Repertory Orchestra, Jackson Heights Orchestra, LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, 

New Music USA, Composers Now, Meet the Composer, among others. Also a professional cellist fluent in many styles of music and improvisation, Ms. Mauer has

performed with such groups as American Symphony Orchestra, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Darmstadt Ensemble, NYU Contemporary 

Players, and Access Contemporary Music. A native New Yorker born and raised in the Bronx, she is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, 

Bard College, and Manhattan School of Music.

https://www.reverbnation.com/perimauer