Simone Di Benedetto, 1989, graduated in double bass with highest grade at the Vecchi-Tonelli Conservatory in Modena, specializing with M° Petracchi at Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona and at the courses of the Chigiana Academy. He also studied composition, graduating cum laude and honors, with a work on the relationship between composition and improvisation. Meanwhile, he approached jazz, mastering the study of the instrument with musicians such as Salvatore Maiore, Roberto Bonati, Paolino Dalla Porta, Eddie Gomez, Drew Gress, Dario Deidda, Ben Street. In 2017 he wins the AIR - artists in residence contest, which allows him to live a 6 week artistic residency in Copenhagen. From 2010 to 2016 he take part continuously at the Permanent Research Laboratories coordinated by Stefano Battaglia at the Siena Jazz Foundation. In 2011 he recorded with the trio Else! the album First degree, while in 2016 he recorded the album "Il sistema periodico" for the Berlin Aut Records with Alberto Collodel. In 2018 he released with the Archipelagos quartet "In Your Thoughts", winner of the first "Stefano Cerri" competition and Red & Blue, first record as leader of the S.d.B. project. In 2019 he released his first solo album, Depth Sounding, again for Aut Records.From 2017 he teaches composition and ear-training at the O.Vecchi Conservatory of Modena. He has performed with original projects nationally and abroad in countries such as France, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and Slovenia.