Born in Naples 1989, Francesco Ciniglio started playing the drums at age six under the tutelage of Maestro Sergio Di Natale. He moved to New York at the age of 21 and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz studies at the City College of New York. It was here he had the opportunity to study with John Patitucci, Fred Hersch, Mike Holober, Dan Carillo and Scott Reeves, as well as taking private drums lessons with Gregory Hutchinson.

Francesco Ciniglio is based in New York and has worked with the likes of Aaron Parks, Joe Sanders, Shai Maestro, Dayna Stephens, Seamus Blake, Joel Frahm, Donny McCaslin and Harish Raghavan to mention a few.