Alessandro Sicardi
Professional musician:
composer, sound designer, arranger, orchestrator,
producer, guitarist, bassist.
Contacts, skills
Career summary
Phone
- (Whatsapp)
Live musician (since 1999)
Concerts, TV and radio shows, theatre
performances, recording sessions, events.
Email-Website with portfolio and showreels
kapemusic.it
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/alessandrosicardi
Linkedin
linkedin.com/in/alessandro-sicardi
Address
Via Nicostrato Castellini, Milano
Italy
Citizenship
Italian
Computer skills
Recording, editing, mixing:
Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Audacity
Implementing:
FMOD, Unity
Languages
Italian - native
English - proficient
Spanish - good
Arranger, orchestrator (since 2001)
For singers/songwriters, external and
original projects.
Composer, sound designer (since 2002)
For brands (advertising), video games,
short movies, showreels.
Producer, audio technician (since 2010)
Recording, editing and mixing for own,
external and original projects.
Teacher (since 2004)
Guitar, bass, music production.
Seminars and workshops.
Radio host -)
Radio Popolare
Studies
Communication Sciences - Bachelor’s
degree (IULM, Milan, 2004)
Audio Technician (Civica Scuola di
Musica Claudio Abbado, Milan, 2021)
Introduction to Game Audio
(Berklee College of Music, 2022)
Orchestration
(Berklee College of Music, 2023)
Career in details
Live musician (since 1999) and arranger/orchestrator (since 2001)
I regularly play many kinds of music: swing, traditional jazz, blues, RnB, soul, funk,
rock’n’roll, rock, bossa nova, samba, tango. I play acoustic and electric guitar and bass. I
sing in Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazilian).
In my career, I played in different countries and important locations: Teatro dei
Filodrammatici, Blue Note (Milano), Teatro Elfo Puccini, House of Blues and Jazz
(Shanghai), Teatro Gerolamo, national TVs and radios.
I collaborated as a performer, arranger/orchestrator and session man with several
singers and songwriters with different backgrounds (folk, ethnic, pop, jazz): Gnut, Folco
Orselli, Patrizia Di Malta, Gioman & Killacat, The Apricot Tree, Stefano Piro, Yalda,
Stefano Tessadri, Gipo Gurrado.
2004 - I was hosted at Premio Barzizza, together with musicians like Riz Ortolani,
Riccardo Zegna, Lino Patruno: the compilation CD “Un sanremese a Londra”, recorded
for the event, includes a song arranged by me (“L’amore è cieco”).
2008 and 2009 - I was the arranger/orchestrator of Caterraduno, a live event organised
by the radio program Caterpillar (Radio 2).
2009 - TV appearances in the shows “Parla con me” and “Tg3 Linea notte”, with Ottavo
Richter band (RAI 3 channel).
2009 - I orchestrated horns for Flavio Premoli, author of the original soundtrack of TV
movie “Occhio a quei due” (Canale 5 channel).
2020 - I published my own singer/songwriter album, “Cliché” (La Stanza Nascosta
Records).
Composer, sound designer (since 2002)
I compose in different styles, both acoustic and electronic, from classical orchestra to
metal atmosphere- - Collaboration with 4friends film for Miu Miu e Prada. I composed music for
web, together with Fabio Visocchi and Andrea Cassano.
2018 - Started a collaboration with the stop-motion artist Dario Imbrogno and the set
designer Elena Borghi, working for brands like Alberta Ferretti, Nutella, Dodo (short
videos for advertising).
2020, 2021 - I composed music for advertising for the Italian fashion brand Mantù and
yogurt Fage.
2022 - I worked (as a composer and sound designer) in two video games productions:
“Polyfarm”, an NFT-based web game, and “Mr Candy”, for iOS and Android.
2022 - I participated in the Lab//Kino at León (Mexico), making music for 5 short
movies in a week.
2023 - I composed the soundtrack for the feature film “El Sobreviviente” (Mexico).
Producer, audio technician (since 2010)
I started to record and mix my own compositions, and after some years I worked for
other bands in several albums, facing different kinds of music.
2015 - “Chinatown swing folies” Delirium jazz band (traditional jazz)
2016 - “GIF” Ottavo Richter (multi-genre)
2019 - The Apricot Tree (swing)
2020 and 2022 - La Postazione (dream pop)
Teacher (since 2004) and other experiences-
Accademia Musicale d’Arte e Musica (Monza-
Centro Musica Insieme (Nova Milanese-
Prime Note (Monza)
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Art&Musica (Milano-
Accademia Arcadia (Milano)
In addition to instrument and music production lessons, I perform collective labs and
conferences about several arguments: composition, improvisation, harmony, interplay,
interpretation, soundtrack music.
November 2018: I was invited as visiting lecturer by Prof. Davide Pinardi (Course of
Storytelling Techniques) at Politecnico Milano, for a lesson about the role and importance
of soundtracks in video making.
I’ve been a radio host from 2017 to 2020, together with other three members of Ottavo
Richter band, for the program “Notte vulnerabile” (Radio Popolare).
In 2020, I published a book, “La musica in-visibile” (Porto Seguro, Milano), about the
analysis of music in movies.
In July 2023, I held a seminar in Madrid (Colombia) about soundtracks, during the
filmmakers and producers meeting Movida Audiovisual.
Education (since- - Classical guitar studies- - Jazz harmony and improvisation.
2004 - Graduated in Sciences and Technologies of Communication, final thesis (in
History and Criticism of Film): “Analysis of a soundtrack.”
2020/2021 - Studied Audio Technician at Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado
(Milano).
October-December 2022 - “Introduction to Game Audio” at Berklee College of Music.
June-September 2023 - “Orchestration 1” at Berklee College of Music.
