Maurizio Grandinetti graduated cum laude at the Bari Music Conservatory. He moved to Switzerland to continue his training under the guidance of Oscar Ghiglia at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel and with Frank Bungarten at the Lucerne Music Conservatory, where he got his soloist diploma. He then specialized in early music and original instruments with the lutenist Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

His vast, poliedric repertoire is particularly oriented towards contemporary and avant-gard music. He has premiered works by Rebecca Saunders, Vinko Globokar, Jürg Wyttenbach, Thomas Kessler, Misato Mochizuki, Alex Buess, Tim Hodgkinson, Gwyn Pritchard, Rudolf Kelterborn, and Heinz Holliger. Several composers such as Elliott Sharp, Alex Buess, Volker Heyn, Junghae Lee have written solo works for him. He has interpreted guitar concertos with the Basel Sinfonietta, the Katowice Chamber Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Milano Classica Orchestra among others. As soloist, he has been invited to perform across Europe and China by the Lucerne International Festival, the Venitian Fenice Theatre, Radio Bremen, Output Festival Amsterdam, Silesian days of Contemporary Music Katowice, transArt Bolzano.

He is a member of the Basel Phoenix Ensemble and often plays with important European Ensembles. He performed Pli selon Pli under the baton of author/conductor Pierre Boulez. He works as composer and performer with German director and choreographer Joachim Schlömer. He has released a CD with music by John Cage & John Dowland, by the Italian CD del Manifesto. Maurizio teaches at the Conservatory of Novara. [official website]