Davide Cabassi made his debut at the age of thirteen with the Rai Symphony Orchestra of Milan playing Shostakovich's  Second Concerto under the direction of Vladimir Delman, the beginning of a career as a soloist that has since led him to perform with the major European and American orchestras including the Munchner Philharmoniker, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Russian Chamber Orchestra, Magdeburg Philharmoniker, Fort Worth Symphony, Enid Symphony, Big Spring Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Cordoba, Orchestra Haydn Bolzano, Orchestra Verdi Milan, Orchestra Pomeriggi Musicali Milan, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Romantique Paris, OSI Lugano, OFT Turin, Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, Tiroler Festspiele Erl Orchestra and many others, collaborating with conductors such as Gustav Kuhn, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Asher Fisch, Antonello Manacorda, David Coleman, Vladimir Delman, Marco Angius, Tito Ceccherini, Carlo Goldstein, Jader Bignamini, Enrique Mazzola, Daniele Callegari, Massimo Zanetti, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Philip von Steinaecker, Howard Griffiths, Johannes Wildner, Federico Maria Sardelli, Kimbo Ishi-Ito, Helmut Rilling, Gabor Takacs-Nagy and many others.

He has played for the most important Italian musical realities such as the Società del Quartetto, Serate Musicali, Società dei Concerti, Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo etc. and abroad, invited both in Europe and in more than 35 American countries, in China and in Japan in halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York,  Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow, Gasteig in Munich, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Louvre and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Forbidden City Hall and NCPA in Beijing, Roque d'Antheron and Tiroler Festspiele.

A passionate chamber musician, he has played in numerous chamber ensembles, 0 (in 2018 he founded the Baggio Sinfonietta) and his vast repertoire indicates particular interest in today's music - there are many compositions dedicated to him performed for the first time.

A long collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala has led him to play for étoiles such as Roberto Bolle, Svetlana Zacharova, Massimo Murru and Sylvie Guillem.

Parallel to his concert activity, Cabassi has undertaken an intense recording activity. He has released his first recordings for labels such as Sony BMG (his first album Dancing with the orchestra won the 2007 Classic Voice Critics' Award for the best debut album of the year), Concerto Classics and Col-legno.

In 2012 he made his debut for Decca, with an extraordinarily successful album with some of Mozart's Sonatas and Variations, and he began recording Beethoven's Piano Sonatas.

He began studying piano at a very young age, graduating with honors in the class of Prof. Edda Ponti at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and is the first Italian admitted to the International Piano Foundation in Cadenabbia, Lake Como, with William Grant Naborè, K. U. Schnabel, L. Fleisher, D. Bashkirov, R. Tureck, A. Weissemberg, and many others.

He has been teaching in Italian conservatories since 2003: his students are regularly winners of prizes at major international competitions (Honens Calgary, Schumann in Zwickau, Cliburn, Epinal, Finale Ligure, Premio delle Arti, Montichiari, Piombino, Gorizia, Prima la Musica etc.).

He is the artistic creator of the concert seasons Kawai in Ledro (TN), Un pianoforte in Ateneo (Kawai - Cattolica, Milan), the Incontri Contemporanei (Milan), the Kawai Summer Music Camps in Ledro and the Shigeru Kawai International Competition.

In 2010 he founded with his wife, the Russian pianist Tatiana Larionova, the concert season Primavera di Baggio, to enhance and culturally relaunch the disadvantaged suburbs of his city, involving children and "invading" the associative spaces, especially those redeemed by the mafias.