Paolo Pollastri

From 1990 Paolo Pollastri is 1st Solo Oboe at the Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome. He was born in Bologna in 1960. He received his Diploma in 1977 studying with S. Gallesi, then attended advanced studies at Accademia Chigiana in Siena with L. Faber (Honour Diploma 1997) and in Bruxelles Conservatoire of Music with P. Dombrecht (Premier Prix in Modern and Baroque Oboe 1982).
Winner of many national and international competitions, he was 1st Oboe in different orchestras (OGI–Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, Teatro Comunale in Genoa, Orchestra RAI in Rome, ORT–Orchestra della Toscana). He plays as soloist with Solisti Veneti, Accademia Bizantina, Virtuosi Italiani, Symphonia Perusina, Baroque Academy of S. Cecilia, and with conductors like W. Sawallisch, A. Pappano, C.M. Giulini, M.W. Chung, D. Gatti, P. Bellugi, A. Ros Marbà, and performing to several Festivals as Salzburg, Montreux, Zagreb and Belgrade, Martigny and Vevey, Paris, Toulouse, Stuttgart, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, Tel Aviv, Ottawa and Montreal.
At the same time, he plays Baroque Oboe conducted by F. Bruggen, A. Curtis, T. Haselblock, R. Gatti, F. Biondi, and as Solo with G. Leonhard, Ch. Hogwood, R. Norrington, N. Roger, R. Kohnen, J. Rifkin, S. Vartolo, R. Alessandrini, A. De Marchi, F.M. Sardelli.
He recorded for Erato, EMI France, Denon, Tactus, Fonè, Materiali Sonori, Musica Immagine, Europa Musica, Arts, Naive.
He is the sole Italian oboist who has recorded the L. Berio’s Sequenza VII under the supervision of Maestro Berio and B. Maderna’s Solo. There are a lot of his recordings of unpublished works, like Sonata and Concerts by T. Albinoni, the Quartets by D. Cimarosa and A. Vivaldi’s Concert for Oboe and Cello, discovered recently.