Alessandro Serra won Second Prize at the prestigious Giovanni Bottesini International Competition in 1999. He has been a member of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Philharmonic since 1996. He has played under conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Valery Gergiev, and many others, often also as principal double bass. Alessandro Serra studied under Franco Petracchi, Giuseppe Ettorre, and Raffaello Majoni and regularly gives masterclasses and performs as a soloist around the world.