Harry G. Pellegrin
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Harry George Pellegrin was born February 4, 1957 in Bronxville, New York, USA.
Musician, writer, photographer, and graphic artist. The only child of Harry Pellegrin (1902-1981) and Veronica M. Pellegrin (1918-2004), Harry G. Pellegrin attended Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx, graduating in 1974. He studied piano as a small child but became interested in the guitar in 1970 and was soon performing in bands in the Bronx, including Stampede, Telepathe, Tony and the Starlighters and The Void. 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 damage to the spine and 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 take the student from novice to recitalist combined Pellegrin’s writing skills with his musical expertise.
Now residing in Northern New York State, Pellegrin teaches and writes.
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