FRANCESCO PELLEGRINO
CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER
INTRODUCTION
His training begins at the Conservatory of Turin. His education took him to distant lands, reaching as far as St. Petersburg, touching upon Bulgaria, Romania, and Germany.
He graduated in Composition and Orchestral Conducting at the Turin Conservatory in 2013 under the tuition of Maestros Alessandro Ruo Rui and Mario Lamberto, respectively. He also achieved his second-level academic diploma in Orchestral Conducting with full marks at the same conservatory in 2016. He graduated in Translation at the University of Turin in 2012.
He further perfected his conducting studies with important international masters: Dejan Savic, Leonid Korchmar, Achim Holub, and George Hurst. He also further refined his choral conducting, studying with masters Michail Golikov, Jacek Sykulsky, Mario Bustillo, and Sander Tamm.
He attended the masterclasses of the "Akademija pravoslavnoj muzyki" (Academy of Orthodox Music) in 2012 and 2013 in Saint Petersburg (RU).
He has conducted numerous Italian and foreign orchestras:
- Orchestra of the Stara Zagora Theater (Bulgaria)
- Orchestra of the National Theater of Constanta (Romania)
- St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
- Moskovskaja Kamerata (Moscow, Russia)
- Rhein-Mein Orchester (Mainz, Germany)
- London Classical Soloists (London, UK)
- Philharmonic Orchestra of Turin
- Orchestra of the Conservatory of Turin
- Orchestra B. Bruni (Cuneo, Italy)
He has collaborated with Opera Classica Europa (Germany) as a conductor.
He reached the semifinal in the international "L. Mancinelli" opera conducting competition in Orvieto in August 2022 with the opera La Bohème by G. Puccini.
His experience in opera is not limited to conducting: he has been Assistant to Masters J. Lacombe and C. Trinks at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg (France); in the same role he worked for Opera Classica Europa (Lorch, Germany), the Società lirica "F. Tamagno" (Turin, Italy), Promocuneo (Cuneo, Italy), adding also the role of Prompter and Choir Master.
His compositions for various chamber, choral, or orchestral ensembles have been performed in Cuneo, Boves, Lanciano, Turin, Izhevsk, Saint Petersburg (Russia).
In April 2014, he won the "Mezhdunarodnyj chorovoj festival" (international choral festival) award in the II "Roman Sladkopevec" international composition contest in Saint Petersburg with his Anthem to the Rev. Sergej for a cappella choir.
Furthermore, he worked with the "P. Mascagni" lyric choir as a tenor from 2006 to 2014 and has sung in numerous operas in the cities of Savona, Lucca, Rovigo, Bergamo.
He is proficient in several foreign languages: English, French, Russian, and German.
