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Guglielmo Pellarin is First Horn of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, horn player of the Italian Wind Quintet and of the Opter Ensemble of which he is a founding member. He has collaborated with prestigious orchestras; as a soloist and chamber musician he is often a guest at festivals and concert seasons. He has performed in Europe, Chile, Japan and Korea.

First horn of the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, Guglielmo Pellarin he grew up in a family of musicians receiving his first teachings from his oboist father and pianist mother.

He began studying the horn at the age of seven and graduated with full marks and honors at the Conservatory of Udine, a pupil of M ° G. Arvati, then perfected with G. Corti, A. Corsini, R. Vlatkovic, I James, M. Maskuniitty and L. Seeman and joins the Italian Youth Orchestra.

In addition to numerous collaborations with renowned orchestras on the international scene - including Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Mozart Orchestra and Human Rights Orchestra - he is the horn player of the Italian Wind Quintet and the Opter Ensemble, and in his solo and chamber activity he is frequently a guest of festivals and concert seasons, in collaborations with Alessio Allegrini, Andrea Oliva, Francesco Di Rosa, Alessandro Carbonare, Andrea Zucco, Federico Lovato, Domenico Nordio, Mariella Devia, Alexander Lonquich, Trio di Parma, Ex Novo Ensemble and Rome Chamber Music Festival. Guglielmo Pellarin premiered the concert for horn and strings that the composer Fabián Perez Tedesco dedicated to him.

Together with Federico Lovato he recorded for the Audite French Music for horn and piano label - a monograph dedicated to French music for horn and piano - which includes the first recording of JM Damase's Sonata for horn and piano; 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 della Serenata op. 11 by Brahms and by R. Strauss' Till Eulenspiegels, and trios dedicated to them by F. Schweizer and G. Mirzayeva. Since 2016 the activity of the Opter Ensemble has been supported by the generous contribution of CIDIM and CRUP through the “Friuli in Musica” project.

Often invited to hold masterclasses and advanced courses, he teaches horn at the "I Fiati" courses of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and at the Pollini Conservatory of Padua.

Passionate about mathematics, he cultivates an interest in the subject and holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Padua.
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(Guglielmo Pellarin, photo © Vittorio Battellini)