The Church will kick off the weekend Friday evening at 7 with “Per Te” (“For You”), a concert of music composed by Roberto Scarcella Perino as dedications, and performed by Baron Fenwick.
“It’s something I’ve always done since I was a child,” Mr. Perino said during a phone conversation, “to dedicate music to friends, family, even my dog.” When he and Mr. Fenwick were discussing the concert, they settled on works dedicated to important people in Mr. Perino’s life.
The concert will open with two piano sonatas. The first is dedicated to Sonja Pahor, his piano teacher when he was growing up in Sicily. “She was an amazing pianist,” he said. “To have a teacher with such a passion for what she did was very important to me. I will be grateful to her for the rest of my life.”
A second sonata is dedicated to Giuseppe Bruno, an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer, and currently director of the Giacomo Puccini Conservatory in La Spezia, Italy. Mr. Bruno, an internationally acclaimed pianist, has played Mr. Perino’s music.
The third piece, “Gina’s Garden,” is a suite of 12 pieces, each one named after a flower. It was commissioned by a woman for a friend of hers who had died. “She decided that instead of sending Gina’s family flowers, they would give them a music piece that could last forever,” said Mr. Perino, adding, “It’s perfect for the spring.”
Mr. Perino’s music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by ensembles and soloists throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. In addition to two piano concertos and three ballets, he has written six operas, and is a faculty member at the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and composer in residence at New York University’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
The composer will introduce each piece and give audience members a list of the flowers in “Gina’s Garden.” Tickets are $25, $20 for members.
As part of the Sag Harbor venue’s current exhibition, “Eternal Testament,” Chenae Bullock, an enrolled Shinnecock Nation citizen, a descendant of the Montauketts, and an African-American, will be at The Church on Monday at 3 p.m.
A licensed Indigenopathic practitioner, she will introduce the audience to the rich traditions of Indigenous plant medicine, focusing on native East End flora. Those plants include cedar, white pine, sassafras, mullein, and sweetgrass, which have long been valued for their medicinal properties and cultural significance. During the hands-on experience, participants will learn about the plants’ applications and have an opportunity to prepare them for use.
Tickets are $10, free for members who R.S.V.P.
Chié Shimizu, a sculptor in residence at The Church through May 28, will discuss the development of her practice, from early inspirations to recent and ongoing works, on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Born in Japan and now living in Queens, Ms. Shimizu examines the human condition through representations of figure and form, according to The Church. Her lifelike sculptures, which include both heads and complex full-body figures, show individuals frozen in various states of movement and emotion. Her heads in particular range in expression from placidity to shock to anger. Each figure is sculpted in clay, cast with plaster, painted by hand, and adorned with textures, designs, and objects.
“The subject of sculpture is always someone in general, rather than one in particular,” the artist has said. “It is my attempt to entice people to relate to the positions of those sculpted figures.”
The program is free, but an R.S.V.P. is required.
