Tickets
General Ticket: $30
Member Ticket: $25
This program has been supported in part by Susan Lacy, Steve Pesner, in honor of Michèle Pesner, and the Friends of the Fund for Music at The Church
We invite you to an evening of warmth and beautiful piano music as multifaceted Italian composer Roberto Scarcella Perino presents his work Per Te (For You), a collection of compositions that serve as dedications. Joined by seasoned performer and rising star Baron Fenwick, Roberto will move audiences with intention, connection, and love for his mentors, friends, and country alike.
An educator and musicologist, Roberto 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.
In good hands, Roberto’s music will be performed by the young and virtuosic pianist and Juilliard doctoral student. Baron’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
Composer
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Roberto Scarcella Perino’s music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by excellent ensembles and soloists throughout Europe, Asia, and The United States. His works include 2 piano concertos, 3 ballets, piano, choral and chamber music.
Roberto wrote 6 operas: A Caval Donato Verdi, Merli and Cucù, Blackout, Furiosus, A Sweet Silence in Cremona, and Enrico IV (based on a play by Luigi Pirandello).
He is a faculty member at the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, a Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU Italian Department and the Composer in Residence at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.
Roberto studied with the Slovenian pianist Sonja Pahor to whom he dedicated his first of his 6 Piano Sonatas. He holds degrees in Piano from the Conservatory Corelli in Messina, 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 in Parma at Accademia Petrassi, and Conducting at the Juilliard School of Music.
There are two upcoming events at the Auditorium of the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò NYU: on February 19th a recording concert of his opera Enrico IV (libretto by Federica Anichini) and on March 27th the world premiere of the Children’s Opera Le Voci dello Stretto (libretto by Eugenio Refini).
BARON FENWICK
Pianist
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Baron 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 Doctor of Musical Arts at Julliard. 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. He has 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. Baron lives in New York City and originally hails from Boone, North Carolina.