Ali R+ SARAL has studied double majors and has two Master’s degrees, MSc and BSC from Istanbul Technical University and MM from Illinois State University. Currently, he is a PhD Music Composition student of İstanbul Technical University's Instute for Advanced Research in Music (İTÜ-MİAM), Kamran İNCE and Manolis EKMEKTSOGLOU.

He was accepted to the Istanbul State Conservatoir Composition and Theory Department and studied harmony, counterpoint and others with Erçivan SAYDAM, composition with İlhan USMANBAŞ.  He was a student of Roque CORDERO and Arthur CORRA at USA.

He has attended courses at Stanford University CCRMA lab and Darmstad 1996.

He has written 76 works of music ~15 hours long.

You can find his compositions at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/@arsaral

and Petrucci Library: http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Saral,_Ali_Riza