Born in Milan, Bruno Giuffredi started studying the guitar with his father, and then attended the Conservatory in his native city, where he took his diploma summa cum laude. He later studied with David Russell, to whom he owes the inspiration for his technical background.
In his early career he recorded three CDs for AGORA': two as soloist and one in a flute/guitar duo with the flautist Gaia Scabbia. Recently, he has published seven CDs for the record label SINFONICA, five supplements to collections of studies on contemporary music and two supplement to the transcription of lute pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue BWV 1000 and Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV 998.
For the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy he recorded a CD supplement to Livio Torresan’s composition Variazioni e fuga sull'inno d'Italia (Variations and Fugue on the Italian National Anthem).
In 2013, for the same publishing house, he produced a DVD on the guitar maker Pietro Gallinotti (Bruno Giuffredi Plays Guitars Made by Pietro Gallinotti), which contains a recital on ten Gallinotti guitars built between 1933 and 1965, and two modern copies (2002-2010). The second part of the recording compares the twelve instruments used. In collaboration with the guitar maker Fabio Zontini, he made a DVD with audio recordings and a short film directed by Luigi Coppola entitled A misura d'uomo (On a Human Scale).
Besides his normal routine as concert guitarist, he is active as an editorial consultant for SINFONICA music editions, especially in contemporary music and the most up-to-date teaching methods. He has edited five anthologies of contemporary music for guitar and the critical revision of the 25 Melodic and Progressive Studies op. 60 by Matteo Carcassi, the 25 Studies by Fernando Sor. He is the author of a successful method for budding musicians, entitled A scuola con la guitar (At School with the Guitar).
In 2014 he recorded a CD for the “SEICORDE” label dedicated to Heitor Villa-lobos, Livio Torresan and Franco Margola studies.
In 2018 he has published a CD by VDE- Gallo: “Italian serenades” for clarinet and guitar with Luigi Magistrelli. For the same label, in 2018, he has produced a new CD: "Historical Italian guitar maker"; contains the recording of a concert program performed with nine Italian guitar.
He teaches annual courses at the Giulio Regondi guitar academy in Milan and at the Conservatory “Guido Cantelli” in Novara and at the "Matteo Bevilacqua" guitar academy in Syracuse.
He plays guitars built between 1933 and 1957 by the guitar maker Pietro Gallinotti.
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