Enrico Maria Milanesi, Musician | Guitar player and composer

ABOUT

Enrico Maria Milanesi was born in Maniago, Pordenone (Italy) in 1984. He began to play the piano at the age of 8, then became passionate as self-taught in the study of the electric guitar and then move on to the acoustic guitar, captured by the virtuosity of great guitarists such as Tommy Emmanuel (with whom he will have the opportunity to share the stage), Antonio Forcione, Franco Morone.

Specialized in fingerpicking and flatpicking techniques, he collaborates with numerous musicians, songwriters, directors and composers of national and international level, in the production of various record and theatre works. He also collaborates as producer and arranger with the American company "Brooks Brothers" in the production of music for video advertising.

He has played in national and international guitar festivals such as the Baska international guitar festival, Madame Guitar, Kastav guitar festival, Festival Acoustic Val di Scalve. In 2015 he won the twelfth edition of "Arrangiatevi", a national composition and arrangement competition organized by Acoustic Franciacorta and fingerpicking.net. In 2016 he qualified as a finalist in the world guitar competition "Guitar Masters", obtaining a prestigious appreciation from guitarists Martin Taylor and Preston Reed.

MUSIC

He released four solo albums: ‘Hanami’ (2014), ‘In Myself’ (2018), ‘LIVE!’ (2018), ‘Off The Beaten Track’ (2025).

‘LIVE!’, in particular, is an album that reproduces the magic of a live performance by highlighting the connection between artist and listener, which is impossible to reproduce in a recording studio. With a refined string trio formation (violin, viola and cello), this album leaves room not only for the acoustic guitar, but also for excursions bordering on chamber music, in which Enrico interweaves his instrument with typical classical sounds.

This project involves the alternation of original pieces and the reinterpretation and arrangement of jazz, rock and classical pieces, pushing the musician's creativity to the highest levels of experimentation.

2019 saw the release of ‘Kythara’, the debut album of the eponymous guitar trio of which Enrico is a member, along with Michele Pucci on flamenco guitar and Francesco Bertolini on semi-acoustic guitar. In the same year, he joined the band ‘40 Fingers’, an instrumental quartet with over 100 million views on YouTube and a growing web phenomenon, with which he began numerous world tours.

In 2025, he collaborated with Andrea Valeri, a recognised international acoustic guitar phenomenon, on ‘Cartoonized’, an album of homage to the great 90s-2000s cartoon theme songs arranged in an acoustic and instrumental way.