Guglielmo Pellarin | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Biography

First Horn of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia since 2008, Guglielmo Pellarin was born in a family where the oboist father and the pianist mother first teached him. He began playing the french horn at the age of seven and graduated as a pupil of Mr. G. Arvati at Conservatory “J. Tomadini” in Udine with highest marks and praise.

In addition to many collaborations with famous orchestras of the international panorama – including London Symphony Orchestra and Lucerne Festival Orchestra – he is hornist of the Quintetto di Fiati Italiano and of the Opter Ensemble.

Guglielmo Pellarin, together with Federico Lovato, recorded for Audite! “French Music for horn and piano” which includes the first recording of J. M. Damase’s sonata for horn and piano. Active in chamber music and in the research for new repertoire, in trio with Francesco and Federico Lovato he founded the Opter Ensemble, which in addition to the traditional repertoire performs exclusively the arrangements of D. Zanettovich and F. Francescato of the Serenade op. 11 by J. Brahms and the “Till Eulenspiegels” by R. Strauss and the trios which F. Schweizer, M. Pagotto and G. Cascioli.

Horn Professor at the “I Fiati” class of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padua, Guglielmo Pellarin is often invited to held masterclasses all over the world.

Mountaineering lover, he also loves mathematics, cultivates an interest in it graduated in Mathematics from the University of Padua.