Gilberto Tinetti was born in São Paulo, where he had  piano lessons by Hans Bruch. Later, in Paris, he studied under orientation of Magdalena Tagliaferro and Alfred Cortot, and in Germany by Friedrich Wuhrer. In 1959 he won the first prize of the Summer International Academy of Salzburg, Austria. Since them, he played in several countries in Europe, Latin America and in the United States. He has performed the debut of the fourth concert for piano and orchestra of Villa-Lobos in Paris(1970), and was invited to the Jury of the International Music Competition of Canada(1977, 1987).

         In Brazil Gilberto Tinetti plays often as soloist of all major orchestras and in it’s most important cities, as recitalist and chamber-musician, and he has being considered as one of the best chamber-musician Latin America’s.

        As pianist of the Trio Brasileiro, founded 1975 by Gilberto Tinetti, Erich Lehninger and Watson Clis, he recorded five LPs and 1 CD for Studio Eldorado and Philips. The CD he has recorded with the Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses was considered by critics as the best classical recording of 1985 in Brazil.

      Since 1961 Gilberto Tinetti has great influence in the formation of young pianists in Brazil. He was artistic director of the Seminários de Música Pró Arte de São Paulo. He is actually professor of the Departamento de Música da Escola de Artes e Comunicações of the USP (Universidade of São Paulo)