Musician, bass guitarist and arranger, music teacher and lecturer at the SMS Cesano Boscone, Tonino De Sensi was born in Toronto (Canada). He began playing guitar at age 14 at the age of 24 he graduated from the University of Bologna (Italy) and currently lives in Milan. Tonino is a lover of all the artistic forms music expresses, but specializes in Jazz with guitarist and composer Gigi Cifarelli, who is recognized by critics as the best Italian jazz guitarist.

Tonino has played in the most prestigious Jazz Clubs of Italy: Blue Note, Capolinea (Terminus), Tangram, Scimmie (Monkeys), La Sosta, etc. .. of France Ahja di Ajaccio, Le Jam de Montpellier; Switzerland: Le Chat Noir (Geneva);Belgium: The music village (Brussels)…

Some of the major Italian and foreign musicians with whom he has played: Gigi Cifarelli, Andrea Valentini , Niccolo' Fragile, Antonio Farao', Stefano Di Battista, Emanuele Cisi, Giovanni Giorgi, Pepe Ragonese, Pancho Ragonese, Patrizio Fariselli,Gendrikson Mena, Michael Rosen, Bruno Marrazzo, Pietro Condorelli, Bruno Castellucci, Paolo Loveri, Walter Lupi, Aida Cooper, Ronnies Jones, Carl Anderson, Angela Baggi, Roberto Caimi, Viviane Cruz, B.Lagrene, S.Luc, C.Escoude', P.Catherine, D.Brown, P.Jeffry, B.Allison, L.Martinez,…
Among the most important records on which he has played: With the Eyes of a child – Gigi Cifarelli; Live at Le Scimmie Milano – Gigi Cifarelli, Ronnie Jones, Aida Cooper: We love U – The Thrust; Les petits hommes bleus- Greg Solinas; Coracao Brasileno – Viviane & Caimi; Bird to Jaco – F.Suppa; Time Passing – Dom Scuteri….
As arranger: Un singulier pluriel – D.Solinas; Scusate il ritardo – F.Suppa; which garnered compliments from the masters G. Gaslini and P. Fresu. For some years Tonino has written for the most important Italian guitar and bass guitar magazine Guitar Club, publishing numerous education based articles.