Alessandro Speciale (1991) is an Italian composer, mainly engaged in music for visual media.

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Alessandro developed an early allure for music, as he began playing his grandmother’s old upright piano with one finger at the age of four. During the high school, he performed as a keyboardist in two symphonic metal bands, planting the seeds of his visceral fascination for symphonic music.

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After that period, his vocation for composition led him to leave his inclination to journalism aside and embark on a journey as a professional musician. In 2012 he began is BA program in Music Technology and Sound Design at the “Alessandro Scarlatti Conservatory of Music”. It was in the same year that he had his first gig as a composer: writing the original music for a play in a local theatre.

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Since 2015, after graduating with full marks, he conducted a self-taught in-depth study of film scoring and orchestration, with a clear strategy in mind: to analyse selected film scores and infer as many rules as possible, and at the same time gradually applying those rules in a composition made specifically for the purpose. The result of this peculiar learning pathway (WALL•E Rescore) got him the admission at Berklee College of Music (Scoring for Films, Television and Video Games MMus 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).

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In 2024 he has composed the original score for the short movie Enif Al, written and directed by famous Italian director and director of photography Daniele Ciprí. He also recently worked as an additional composer for the Canadian animation movie Rocket Club: Across The Cosmos, alongside composer Petteri Sainio.

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Alessandro's work has been awarded multiple times over the course of the last four 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 the renowned UCLA Music Library.