Born in Bologna in 1973, he graduated from the GB Martini Conservatory in his hometown with Maestro Luigi Rovighi. In parallel with his musical studies at the Conservatory, he attended violin specialization courses led by Maestro Renato Zanettovich at the Fiesole Music School. From 1994 to 1996, he actively participated in specialization courses led by Maestro Massimo Quarta, organized by the Emilia-Romagna Region and supported by the European Economic Community. He attended numerous lessons and master classes with such renowned Italian and international maestros as Franco Gulli, Enzo Porta, Cristiano Rossi, Zakhar Bron, Eugène Sarbu, Viktor Tretiakov, Pavel Vernikov and Thomas Brandis. From an early age, he performed as a soloist with the GB Martini Conservatory Orchestra and the Bologna Theater, always with great success. In 1995 In 1999 he moved to Lübeck (Germany) and then to Cologne, where he was the only Italian student recognized by the Maestro, to continue his studies with the famous teacher Zakhar Bron (who had previously taught such famous musicians as M. Vengerov, V. Repin, D. Garrett, D. Kashimoto and others). From 1999 to 2001, after passing the competitive exam, he attended the Walter Stauffer School of Advanced Studies in Cremona, under the guidance of maestro Salvatore Accardo. Maurizio Sciarretta has won numerous national and international awards. In 2002 he won first prize and the special Paolo Borciani Prize for the best performance of the Sonata for Violin and Piano at the prestigious Michelangelo Abbado International Violin Competition in Milan. The violinist combines his solo work with chamber music, giving numerous concerts as a piano duo and in various other chamber music ensembles. She forms a stable duo with the virtuoso Czech violist Jitka Hosprová, giving numerous concerts in Italy and abroad. For his artistic qualities, as the best performer of the year in Bologna, he was awarded the "Nettuno d'Oro" prize. Radio Rai Tre has devoted a lot of space to him in its program "La Stanza della Musica". Since 2005 Maurizio Sciarretta has been teaching violin at the famous International Academy "Incontri con il Maestro" in Imola, and since 2007 (first as a temporary professor, then from 2011 as a permanent professor) he has held the position of head of the violin department at the Rimini State Conservatory of Music "G. Lettimi". Since 2013 Maurizio Sciarretta is Maestro Zakhar Bron's assistant professor at the Zakhar Bron Academy in Interlaken, Switzerland, and has taught Maestro Bron in numerous masterclasses in Italy and abroad, including at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, the SommerAkademie Mozarteum in Salzburg (2010-2020), the Beijing State Conservatory, China (2015) and the String Masterclass in Zhuhai, China (2019). Maurizio Sciarretta is regularly invited to be a jury member at important national and international competitions, such as the Città di Vittorio Veneto, the Wieniawski-Lipinski Competition in Lublin, Poland,Novosibirsk International Violin Competition (Russia), Boris Goldstein International Violin Competition in Bern, Switzerland, and many others. Maurizio Sciarretta is one of the founders and artistic director of the Rimini Classica Cultural Association since 2013. Maurizio Sciarretta plays a JB Vuillaume violin, made in Paris in 1850.