Kurt Masur
A recipient of the 2008 Presser Music Award from the Yale School of Music. He was also awarded a fellowship from the Centre Acanthes to conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under the mentorship of Peter Eötvös and Zsolt Nagy, and was selected by Kurt Masur to participate in the 2009 Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar. Pellicano is also a recipient of Yale's Phillip F. Nelson Award.