Francesco Loi is the first flute of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa, and was also first flute of the National Symphony Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome and of the orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
After graduating with honors at the Cagliari conservatory in Salvatore Saddi's class, he perfected first in Imola with Massimo Mercelli and then at the Superior conservatory of Geneva with Maxence Larrieu obtaining a first prize with distinction at the end of his studies.
In the same years, he was selected and joined the Italian Youth Orchestra, perfecting the Orchestral discipline with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Carlo Maria Giulini.
His solo activity led him to play with important orchestras such as "I Solisti Aquilani" , “Deutchekammervirtuosen", the Orchestra of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa and the "Orpheus chamber Orchestra" in New York.
He has been a guest in important international festivals such as the Emilia Romagna Festival, the Ravenna Festival, The Friends of Music in Florence, the Erl festival in Austria, the Gonjiam Flute Festival in Seoul, the Galway Flute Festival in Weggis.
Guest artist of the Falaut festival, an international festival that sees among its guests the most important world exponents of the Flute including Emmanuel Pahud, Maxence Larrieu and Sir James Galway.
Professor of the annual Flute Master at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, he also taught at the Senzoku University of Tokyo, at the Masters of the Flute Festival in the Gonjiam Valley in Seoul, and, on the invitation of Davide Formisano, in the Musikhochschule fur Musik in Stuttgart.
Invited by Lady Jeanny and Sir James Galway as Guest Artist at the prestigious Galway Flute Festival.