Harry G. Pellegrin

Who is Harry G. Pellegrin?

Harry George Pellegrin was born February 4, 1957 in Bronxville, New York, United States.

Classical guitarist, composer, author, photographer, and graphic artist. The only child of Harry Pellegrin and Veronica M. Pellegrin, Harry G. Pellegrin attended Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx, graduating in 1974. Pellegrin studied piano as a small child but became interested in the guitar in 1970 and by 1973 was performing. He performed sporadically with a proto-punk band The Void during the late 1970s, but this was not the direction he wished his career to take. Pellegrin attended Bronx Community College from 1974 to 1976. He majored in classical guitar at The Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, studying with Albert Valdés-Blain and Eliot Fisk. After graduating in 1980, Pellegrin formed Air Raid with Martin Seddon, British-born graphic artist. It was Seddon that introduced Pellegrin to both photography and the graphic arts.

A severe traffic accident in 1989 resulting in fractured thoracic and lumbar vertebrae with some permanent damage to the spine and the associated neurological deficits curtailed his musical career for almost seven years and channeled his energies towards his other interests, writing and photography. Pellegrin wrote for Soundboard, The Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America and Ironhorse Magazine before publishing his first novel Low End, in 2003. The first of a series, Low End was followed by Deep End in 2006. Classic Guitar Method, A Comprehensive Method designed to transform the student from novice to recitalist combined Pellegrin’s writing skills with his musical expertise. Pellegrin performed his come-back recital at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York on February 13, 2007, his first classical performance since the 1989 accident.