Alessandro Speciale

Alessandro Speciale (1991) is an Italian composer, particularly focused on the field of scoring for visual media. As a four-year-old child, he developed an early passion for music, playing on his grandmother’s old upright piano with one finger.

During the high school, he performed and wrote music as a keyboardist in a couple of symphonic metal bands. After that period, his vocation for composition led him to embark on a journey as a professional musician. In 2012 he began studying “Music Technology and Sound Design” at the Alessandro Scarlatti Conservatory of Music, from which he then graduated with full marks. Since 2015, he has been conducting a self-taught in-depth study of film scoring and orchestration, which lately got him the admission at Berklee College of Music, "Scoring for Films, Television and Video Games" program - and at the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, “Film Scoring" MFA program, led by former Vice President of Music Production at Disney, dr. Andy Hill.

Alessandro's work has been awarded multiple times over the course of the last years, in a number of film scoring competitions, including the prestigious GIL Soundtrack Award and the Oticons Faculty International Film Music Competition. In September 2020, one of his works has been published in UCLA Music Library.

Although his style is certainly imbued with his musical influences, Speciale is currently committed to developing a personal musical language, based on a fresh, new dialogue between the full-scale orchestral sound and contemporary electronics.