Roberto Scarcella Perino, a multifaceted Italian composer, and Baron Fenwick, an acclaimed pianist, will return to The Church in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 6 p.m. for a performance of “Per Te (For You)” Part 2. A second set of original dedication pieces, it will include a world premiere of Mr. Perino’s Sonata No. 6.
When the duo presented the first part of “Per Te” last May, Mr. Perino told The Star, “It’s something I’ve always done since I was a child, to dedicate music to friends, family, even my dog.” The first two pieces in that program were dedicated to Sonja Pahor, the composer’s piano teacher when he was growing up in Sicily, and Giuseppe Bruno, a composer, conductor, and pianist. The third was dedicated to flowers in a garden.
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-Marimò.
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.
Two of Mr. Perino’s operas will be performed in the auditorium of the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò in the coming weeks. His “Enrico IV” is set for Feb. 19, while the world premiere of his children’s opera “Le Voci dello Stretto” will happen on March 27.
Mr. Fenwick, the winner of many prizes, awards, and honors, has performed over the past six years with Cantori New York, a choir specializing in contemporary classical music. The holder of master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Mannes School of Music, he is currently pursuing a doctorate in musical arts at Juilliard.
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.
Tickets are $30, $25 for members.
Samuel Havens, The Church’s workshops and residency manager, in-house printmaker, and artist, will lead the year’s first Insight Sunday program on Sunday at noon, presenting a live demonstration print of his copper etching “Dusk Haze.” Using a mobile printing press and sharing his process on a big screen, he will walk the audience through the process step by step, illuminating the intricacies of the craft and his own approach. After the demonstration he will take questions from the audience.
While studying under the master printmaker Dan Welden, Mr. Havens earned a B.F.A. from SUNY Oneonta in 2021. His work is held in many private collections and has been shown nationwide, including at the Southampton Arts Center, the Center for Book Arts and the Empty Circle in Manhattan, and Creede Center for the Arts in Creede, Colo. In 2024 he organized the exhibition “Master Impressions: Artists and Printers on the South Fork (1965-2010)” at The Church.
Tickets are $10, free for members who R.S.V.P.
