Davide Botto is double bass Professor at the "Giuseppe Verdi" State Conservatory of Turin (Italy). In the same city he served for over forty years as a Principal double bass in the Orchestra Teatro Regio. 

He studied with Elio Veniali, Franco Petracchi and Thomas Martin. 

In the position of Principal double bass he also played with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Orchestra RAI (Italian radio and television orchestra), the Teatro Verdi Trieste and many others. 

As a soloist he performed both with the piano and the orchestra the most important pieces of the Italian double bass composers, such as Bottesini and Rota, in Italy and abroad. 

In 2009 he received the “Carlo Capriata Prize”, awarded annually to a distinguished Italian double bass player for his career. In 2011 he recorded Rota’s Divertimento concertante for the the British label Chandos with the conductor Gianandrea Noseda and the Filarmonica ‘900 Teatro Regio di Torino, getting worldwide appreciation. For the British label Chandos he has also recorded a CD of music by Bottesini, playing his last unrecorded piece (Capriccio a due contrabbassi) for double bass. 

He held classes at the home of NHK Orchestra, Tokyo, at the University of Georgia, Athens USA, at the Birmingham Conservatoire, UK, at the Juilliard School and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona, at the HEM in Geneva, at the Rencontres de la contrebasse in Perpignan (France), in Spain, in China and in several Italian Conservatories. He is the author of The way of double bass, an educational text about the learning process on the double bass.