BIOGRAPHY
Roberto Scarcella Perino is a composer, a Senior Lecturer at the Italian Department and a scholar in residence at the American Institute for Verdi Studies. Born in Messina, Italy, 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 has written three operas: Verdi, Merli e Cucú, A Caval Donato, and Blackout; three ballets: Colapesce, Constellations, and Basket-Dance. He graduated from the University of Bologna in with a degree in musicology and he taught music analysis at the Arturo Toscanini Foundation in Parma. Every summer, Scarcella Perino teaches a course on Italian opera at NYU Florence and in 2014 he will start teaching a new class of “Italian Through Opera” at NYU.
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