In what could be called Mr. Porcelli’s Opus, compositions of an Italian immigrant who lived in the Rochester area will be performed for the first time at Rochester Institute of Technology. The RIT Concert Band, conducted by Dean Davis, will present “From Italy to America, The Italian Diaspora,” at 7 p.m. on March 1 at Ingle Auditorium on the RIT campus, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive.

Admission is free. The concert, which kicks off RIT’s “Viva L’Italia: RIT Celebrates Italy!” series of concerts, speakers and exhibits through April, will feature the works of Samuel J. Porcelli. Soloist Sungmin Shin, an adjunct professor of applied guitar at RIT, will play the mandolin.