Daniele Di Bonaventura was born in Fermo, Italy and began his music studies at the age of eight. First he studied piano and composition, and later the bandoneon.
As a pianist, a highlight was his participation in the Jazz Festival of Roccella Jonica, in the New Talents Band, directed by Oliver Lake in '87 and by David Murray in '88.
He has published several of his compositions for the Tirreno Publishing House. 
With his bandoneon, he was one of the finalists  in the International Contest for Musical Youth of Italy in 1996 with the Felure Quintet which he himself formed in '94.
Currently, besides working with the percussionist Alfredo Laviano, with whom he produced a CD entitled Improvisation, he is working with Enzo Favata, among other Italian musicians, who asked him to substitute Dino Saluzzi.