Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis was born in Pisa in 1963.

He graduated in Violin, Choir Music and Conducting, Composition, the latter cum laude.

He triennially attended the composition courses kept by Giacomo Manzoni at the Fiesole Music School.

Winner in various national and international Composition competitions, his scores are published and/or recorded on CD by fonè, SAM, Ars Publica, Setola di maiale and Nova Musica.

His works have been performed in Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Croatia, Uruguay, Mexico. Brasil, USA.

His Musical Analysis, Music Didactics, Electronic Music papers have been published on specialized journals in Italy and abroad, such: Sonus, Aulos, Tibiae (Germany), Tetraktys, Civiltà Musicale, Musica Domani, Facoltà di Matematica (Pisa University), Analitica, Musicology Papers (Romania), XX, XXI and XXII CIM Proceedings (AIMI, Italy), Gli Spazi della Musica, ISSM "P. Mascagni", Proceedings of the Fifth International Csound Conference, d.a.t. [divulgazioneaudiotestuale]. A paper of him is present in third Ircam volume of the series "OM Composer's Book".

He took part as lecturer to meetings and seminars for: GATM 2006-2014-2019-2020-2021 (Rimini); Domus Galileiana (Pisa University, Italy); EuroMac 2011 - VII European Music Analysis Conference in Rome, Santa Cecilia Conservatory; Colloqui di Informatica Musicale by AIMI, Italian Music Informatics Association 2014-2016-2018: Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Rome, Cittadella dei Musei, Cagliari, Udine Conservatory; Ircam Forum Workshop (Paris, France), HarMA (Bruxelles, Belgium), Música Analítica 2019 (Porto, Portugal), ICSC 2019 (International Csound Conference - Cagli), Levi Foundation, Escola Superior de Musica de Lisboa, Opusmodus.

He held Erasmus courses at: Lemmens Instituut (Leuveen, Belgium); Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas by Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Portugal); Academia de Muzică "Gheorghe Dima" in Cluj (Romania); Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel Castillo" Seville (Spain); Staatlische Hochschule Stuttgart (Germania).

Since 1992 he has taught Harmony and Counterpoint and Foundations of Musical Composition for the Didactics in several Italian Conservatories, Musical Analysis in Professional Courses funded by The European Community, in various seminaries kept in the Conservatory of Latina, and in the bachelor and master courses in the ISSM "P. Mascagni” in Leghorn.

He held an Algorithmic Composition Masterclass in Genoa and in Sassari Conservatories.

He turned out winner, in contests for titles and exams to chairs in: Complementary Harmony, Harmony and Counterpoint, Theory, Solfège and Music Dictation, Foundations of Musical Composition for the Didactics (Conservatories); Complementary Harmony, Theory, Solfège and Music Dictation (Superior Musical Studies Institute "P. Mascagni"); Solfège (Dance Academy in Rome), obtaining several calls to teach.

He has taken up the half-yearly courses of Harmony and Counterpoint Elements in Cinema Music and Theatre Department, Faculty of Letters, University of Pisa, from 2001 to 2009. He held for two years a course of Composition Techniques in Genoa Conservatory for the degree of Electronic Music.

Ordinary professor of Complementary Harmony, he held the courses of Fundamentals of Composition, Musical Analysis, Control and Peformance Environments for Live Electronics, COmposition for Didactics. From 2020 he teaches Composition, in Superior Musical Studies Institute "P. Mascagni”. He attends to Composition and Musical Analysis, mainly working on Open Source and Ircam software, Linux and OsX platform, in the ambit of Electronic Music and Algorithmic Composition. He is the author of a software library for PWGL and Open Music, denominated FDSDB_XXth_CT, dedicated to XXth Century Composition techniques. He is one fo the collaborators for the developing of Opusmodus algorhtmic composition software.

He is member of GATM (Group for Analysis and Theory of Music) Scientific Committee for the 2018-2021 and 2021-2024 triennium.