The Italian horn player and pianist Claudia Pallaver was born in Verona. Her musical talent was clear from an early age, which she initially demonstrated in her piano studies. She graduated at the age of 17 with top marks. Her musical career then led her to the horn, which she studied at the Conservatorio di Vicenza with Professor Dileno Baldin and also graduated with top marks and honours in 2017. Parallel to her studies in Vicenza, she honed her skills at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. There she studied with Prof. Thomas Hauschild and specialised in the natural horn with Prof. Stephan Katte.
Claudia Pallaver has played in various renowned orchestras throughout Europe. These include the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Leipzig), the Orchestra Verdi (Milan), the Orchestra del Luglio Musicale Trapanese (Sicily), the Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), the Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza (OTO), the Orchestra Senzaspine (Bologna), the Stegreif Orchester (Berlin) and the Sinfonia Leipzig. Claudia Pallaver is also a member of the brass ensemble Vicenza Brass and regularly performs with various baroque ensembles, including Theresia, the Orchestra of the Bach Academy Stuttgart, Concerto Copenhagen, Wrocławska Orkestra Barokowa, the Hofkapelle München, La Cetra Barockorchester, the Göttingen Festival Orchestra, the Accademia Bizantina and the Lautten Compagney ensemble.
The musician made her orchestral debut as a soloist in September 2023 in Switzerland with Robert Schumann's Concert Piece for Four Horns. Since 2019, she has combined her artistic career with teaching: she holds a teaching position as a répétiteur at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig.