Alfredo Sirica is an Italian composer, pianist and orchestrator. Best known for his activity as soundtrack composer, he has written and produced music for cinema, video games and TV series. With his work for the Italian animated series :it:Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa|Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa, produced by Rai Ragazzi, he became the first composer of a soundtrack suitable also for children with disabilities such as blindness or autism, merging narration with music therapy.
Career
He writes his first soundtrack at the age of sixteen for the feature film "17 Porches and Private Eyes", after winning an online competition promoted by Running Wild Films. The music that he realizes for the movie gains the interest of several film directors and film producers, with whom he embarks on new collaborative experiences. In 2017, he is chosen by HeR Interactive and Eric Lindstrom, screenwriter for Tomb Raider, to write the soundtrack for the videogame "Odyssey – The Story of Science", promoted by the scientific communicator Vsauce and currently in use in several institutes for educational purposes. During the same year, he worked on the short film "Pawns" by David Barbeschi, which soon becomes viral, reaching over a million views on YouTube and becoming part of the MUBI catalogue. In 2018, for the feature film "Sincerely, Brenda", he gets nominated for "Best Original Soundtrack" at the Detroit Filmmaker Awards. In the same year, for the Vatican Foundation, he realizes the music of the animated film "Bernadette". This project marks the beginning of his long collaboration with the animation studio Animundi. In 2019, together with voice actor Laura Bailey and the New York School of Visual Arts, he works on the animated short "A Moonlight's Tale". The project gains immediate universal acclaim by critics and public alike, reaching over 12 million views on the web. His collaboration with the Italian animation studio Animundi resumes. With a financial contribution from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Rai Ragazzi, production for the animated series :it:Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa|Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa starts. It is the first TV product accessible by all children, including those affected by disabilities. The cartoon aired on 29 March 2020 on the national channel Rai Yoyo, soon becoming the most popular program watched by Italian children in the preschool age. For his work, he gets invited as a guest at the Giffoni Film Festival and several Italian television programs. In 2020, with the work-in-progress animated film "Bigger than Us", he wins the "Studio Alhambra Prize" at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival MIFA Pitch, obtaining significant funding for his latest soundtrack. He also writes the music for the feature film "Time for Love", regia di Miguel J. Veléz, officially selected at the Cannes Film FestivalMarché du Film.
