Francesco Biraghi, born in Milan, began his musical studies with Antonio Barbieri, and then with Ruggero Chiesa at the Milan Conservatory, later attending summer courses and masterclasses with Oscar Ghiglia and Hopkinson Smith. Even before completing his studies, he started an intense concert career in chamber groups which led him to give hundreds of concerts in more than fifty countries, as well as radio and television recordings, seminars, and lectures.

A regular contributor to the magazine 'Il Fronimo', he often writes liner notes and reviews of concerts and recordings and has also appeared for several years on video as a presenter of musical programmes on Sky TV's 'Classica' channel. A member of the “Comitato Scientifico” of the Guitar Convention of Milano, he has for many years acted as presenter and moderator of the convention itself. He holds summer interpretation courses and is often invited as a juror in national and international guitar competitions. On the recording front, he has eleven CDs to his credit. He has been active for twenty years with the Classico Terzetto Italiano (flute, violin or viola, and guitar with historical instruments) and pursues with conviction the re-evaluation of the original 19th-century chamber repertoire with guitar.

Since 1982, that is to say for forty academic years, Francesco Biraghi has been a guitar teacher in several Italian State Conservatories (Como, Rovigo, Adria, Novara, and Milan for the last twenty-one years), passionately teaching guitar, history of the guitar repertoire, and guitar methods and treatises. He takes great pleasure in playing the many guitars in his collection: among them a highly original Ramirez 'del Vino', an astonishing Philip Woodfield, and a legendary Daniel Friederich, as well as his magnificent Louis Panormo, born in London in 1838 and still in excellent shape.