Carlos Antonio Pini OBE (15 April 1902 – 1 January 1989) was a cellist, known as a soloist, orchestral section leader and chamber musician.
The family was musical; Pini's younger brother Eugene achieved success as the leader of a tango band popular in the 1930s and 1940s.
[2] In 1932 Sir Thomas Beecham invited Pini to lead the cello section of his new London Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1964 he took his final orchestral post, leading the cellos in the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, retiring in 1976.
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians rates the Philharmonia recordings of Schubert's Death and the Maiden and Mozart's Hunt quartets as classics, and similarly rates Pini's recordings of Elgar's Cello Concerto (with the London Philharmonic and Eduard van Beinum) and Beethoven's Archduke Trio with Solomon and Henry Holst.