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Roberto Scarcella Perino’s works, which include three operas, 2 piano concertos, three ballets, chamber and choral music have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading ensembles and soloists throughout Europe, Asia and The United States, including the Orchestra Toscanini, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Giuseppe Bruno and the Exclusive Saxophone Quartet. A Caval Donato, commissioned and premiered by Teatro Verdi di Pisa, has since been produced at Teatro Vittorio Emanuele di Messina, Blackout, had its world premiere in October 2003 in New York at the Tarrytown Music Hall, then at Teatro Regio in Turin and at Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina. Roberto was chosen to write the music for Verdi, Merli and Cucù, opera commissioned and premiered by Teatro Verdi di Busseto, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of death of Giuseppe Verdi. His newest choral music, Le Passioni dell’Anima, sequel of his successful Le Passioni dell’Aria, will be premiered in Messina in April 2017, followed by 2 performances in New York and in Florence. Spring 2016 will see the world premiere of La Scolta, a new work for mezzo, women chorus and piano performed by the SolEnsemble and in August 2017 in Città della Pieve will be produced an opera on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso commissioned by the International Opera Theater. He is a Senior Lecturer at the NYU Italian Department and a Scholar in Residence at the American Institute for Verdi Studies. He has been the recipient of numerous high honors and awards, including an International Competition for Children’s Opera and the Musical Analysis International Competition N. Slonimskij. He holds degrees in Piano and in Composition from the Conservatory Martini in Bologna. He also studied composition at Accademia di Santa Cecilia and in Milan at Accademia Petrassi, and Conducting at the Julliard School of Music. He graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in Musicology (discussing a thesis on A.Skrjabin’s piano music) and he taught Music Analysis at the Arturo Toscanini Foundation in Parma. Every summer, Scarcella Perino teaches a course on Italian Opera at NYU in Florence.

www.robertoscarcellaperino.com