Additional information/sources for Alberto Molinari – Symphony Nr. 1 in G Major (Movement I Allegretto)

Alberto Molinari is a 33-year-old composer from Bologna, Italy. He started playing piano at the age of ten and studied at the local school and the Conservatory of Bologna, where he studied organ and composition and graduated in 2007.
At sixteen, he started studying electric guitar at the Modern Music Institute of Bologna and graduated in 2009. He continued to study composition privately during this time.
He also recently completed a big Requiem Mass, his 1st symphony and a symphonic poem, “Wandern am Reschensee”. He won the first prize at the Ablaze Records competition (2020) with the best composition for a big orchestra.
In 2019, he finished a soundtrack album, “Heroes of Our World”, that took three years to complete. He is also a guitarist and he has released three albums with his heavy-metal band, Simple Lies, and performed all over Europe.
In 2023, he was nominated to the TOP 50 Composers of the European recording orchestra Call for Scores of the Film Scoring Academy of Europe. He received a scholarship for their Film and game-scoring graduate degree.
In May 2023, he won the second prize of the Vienna Classical Music Academy competition for chamber music orchestra with the opera “String Quartet n.2 in Ab flat”, showing his abilities in orchestral music and chamber music.