[1] She attended Bologna Conservatory, Conservatoire de Strasbourg, and IRCAM; Ivan Fedele, Tristan Murail, and Thea Musgrave were her composition teachers.
[2][3] As an artist, Alessandrini specializes in electronic music and sound art,[4] as well as social and political issues and the reexamination of canonical works.
[9] Alessandrini obtained her PhD at Princeton University in 2008; her doctoral dissertation Temporal Problematics Raised by Two Metric Versions of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VII: AComputer-Assisted Analysis and its Implications for Computer-Aided Composition was supervised by Scott Burnham and Perry R.
[10] She later went to Northern Ireland for another PhD at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, with her dissertation Composition as interpretation through performative electronics (2014) being supervised by Pedro Rebelo and Maarten Van Walstijn.
[11] As an academic, Alessandrini researches computer music, digital performance, embodied interaction, and instrument design.