Francesco Benotti

Professional guitarist, Francesco Benotti is active as a session player and guitar teacher.

Francesco Benotti, born in 1983, falls in love with the guitar at the age of 16 and begins an educational path, following private lessons; later, he enrolled at the CPM in Milan where in 2006 he obtained the "Rock guitar master of Donato Begotti".

In 2009 Francesco attended a Master in "Live performance" at the Musician Institute in Los Angeles; in recent years he has attended specialization courses with: Luciano Zadro, Giorgio Secco and Alessandro Usai. Francesco is currently enrolled in the Popular Music Course at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan.

Francesco is active as a guitarist both Live and in the Studio, he is currently engaged as guitarist and musical director of the show "Da Balla a Dalla" and "Live Show" by Dario Ballantini (Striscia la Notizie) and in parallel collaborates with other musical projects with whom he has an intense live activity. In recent years he has collaborated with: Ricchi e Poveri, Fedez, Irama, Fabrizio Fontana (Zelig), Susan Didrichsen (Spyro Gyra, W. Pickett, Enya), and more. In 2006, Francesco also began teaching modern guitar and ensemble music.

he Currently teaches at the "Massive Arts Music Academy" of Milan (MI) and the "Accademia MPA" of Robecchetto con Induno (MI); he was a teacher at "Fonderia Music Academy" in Vigliano Biellese (BI), "My Sound ex Suoneria" in Settimo Torinese (TO) and "the Popular University of Biella". From 2009 to 2011 he was an authorized teacher of Donato Begotti's RLS Extreme courses. N

in 2015 Francesco was Guitar coach of the artist "Fedez".

In the last few years Francesco has exhibited as a demonstrator in various trade fairs.