In his life, Johannes Monno is trying to achieve a balanced combination of artistic, scientific, and pedagogical work. He intensively cooperates with the artists like Kolja Lessing, Wilfried Jochens, Ingo Goritzki or Olaf Van Gonnisen and meanwhile devotes his time and energy to the ensemble Rilegato, which he co-founded with a charango player Diego Jascalevich. As a soloist he regularly gives performances in his country and abroad. He has released 3 Solo-CDs so far and has taken part in various chamber ensemble recordings. If the time allows him to, he likes to perform as a continuo player.

His pedagogical career started at the Academy of Music in Hamburg where he used to teach guitar interpretation, methodology and didactics. Next, he was teaching guitar history and continuo interpretation for guitarists at the Academy of Music in Frankfurt. In 2004 Johannes Monno was appointed Professor at the Music Academy in Stuttgart where he leads a very successful guitar department and teaches guitar history.