After graduating in viola da gamba with R. Gini, since 1986 Paolo Biordi has taught the viola da gamba class at the Conservatory of Vicenza, and from 2002 at the Conservatory of Florence, which he directed from 2006 to 2012.
He has recorded for Dynamic, Teldec, Stradivarius, Winter & Winter, Naxos, Astrée, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and Challenge Classics. He is the authors of world-renowned publications, such as his Metodo progressivo per Viola da Gamba, (Biordi–Ghielmi) Ed. Ut Orpheus, Bologna; and Viole de Gambe en Italie, (Biordi–Ghielmi), Ed. Fuzeau, Paris. For many years now he has held a summer course in viola da gamba in Gerfalco (near Grosseto).
He is a scholar of viola da gamba in the musical iconography of the 15th to 17th centuries.