Harry George Pellegrin

About Harry George Pellegrin

Harry George Pellegrin is a classical guitarist and pianist with four solo albums on both instruments. Harry George Pellegrin was born in the Bronx. He attended Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx. In 1974 he began studying music at the college level when he enrolled at Bronx Community College. Two years later he transferred to the prestigious Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, earning a BA in what he often calls museum music. Growing up in New York City during the sixties, Harry witnessed revolutionary changes in society and art. In the cultural maelstrom of a big city in intellectual and social flux, unbounded beauty and desperate violence blended into inspiration for many a composer and performing musician. Music and literature occupied his mind from the earliest cognizant thought. He began piano lessons at the age of five but had switched to bass at thirteen and guitar soon after. During his time at Mount St. Michael Academy, Harry decided to study music seriously--make it his life's vocation. First studies were undertaken with well-known bass player Larry Silvestro. Studies continued with Albert Valdés-Blain and Eliot Fisk. After college, he became more involved in studio work until a near-fatal car accident left him temporarily unable to play guitar. With one