'Per Te,' Compositions by Roberto Scarcella Perino Performed at The Church

The Church in Sag Harbor invites the community to an evening of warmth and beautiful piano music on Friday, May 9, at 7 p.m. as multifaceted Italian composer Roberto Scarcella Perino presents his work “Per Te (For You),” a collection of compositions that serve as dedications. This performance was rescheduled from April 12.

Joined by seasoned performer and rising star Baron Fenwick, Perino will move audiences with intention, connection, and love for his mentors, friends, and country alike. An educator and musicologist, Perino has explored a wide territory of musical composition and has performed worldwide. Operas, piano concertos, movie scores, ballets, chamber music and choral compositions are all part of his outstanding repertoire.

His music will be performed by Fenwick, the young and virtuoso pianist and Juilliard doctoral student. Fenwick’s playing has been described as “elegant, lush, and far more mature than would be expected for a young man of his age,” in the words of Gerald Cochran of Focus Newspaper: “This is an artist to keep your eyes and ears on.”

Roberto Scarcella Perino’s music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by ensembles and soloists throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. His works include two piano concertos and three ballets, as well as choral and chamber music. He has also written six operas and is a faculty member at the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, a Clinical Fenwick associate professor in the Italian department at New York University, and the composer-in-residence at NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.

He holds degrees in piano from the Conservatory Corelli in Messina, Italy, in composition from the Conservatory Martini in Bologna, and in musicology from the University of Bologna. He studied at Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with the composer Azio Corghi, in Milan and Parma at Accademia Petrassi, and has also conducted at the Juilliard School of Music.

Pianist Baron Fenwick has performed with Cantori New York over a span of six years. He is the winner of numerous prizes, awards and honors. A graduate with his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Mannes School of Music, he is currently pursuing his doctorate of musical arts at Juilliard. His recent collaborators include those with composers Matthew Aucoin, Lowell Liebermann and Julia Wolfe. A CD with violinist Isabella Li Lao will be released by Naxos Music. This season, he performed Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” as well as concertos by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich with the Canton Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland, and was a featured solo improvisor for the Cecilia Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. Fenwick lives in New York City and originally hails from Boone, North Carolina.

Tickets for the concert are $25 ($20 members) at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor.