Born in 1963, Maurizio was an amateur musician throughout his childhood and adolescence; he played guitar, drums, flute and, yes, plenty of the odd clay bongoes, while carrying his studies in architecture and interior design in his hometown Trieste, Italy.

He turned full attention to music at 21, when he began studying conga drums. By 1986 he had abandoned any other form of livelihood, and officially started his full-time career as a musician, playing for theatre, and local jazz, salsa and rock bands.
Between 1989 and 1991 he went through an intensive period of study of Congas and Afro Cuban Percussion, frequently visiting La Havana, Cuba, and learning from Tomàs “El Panga” Ramos, Changuito, Los Chinos and many others.

He moved to London in 1991, and quickly established himself as a session musician.
Quite an active presence in the British Funk scene throughout the nineties, he was the percussionist of Jamiroquai during their “Emergency” and “Space Cowboy” period, and of the James Taylor Quartet from 1994 to 1998; plus a number of less notorious acts with some of the most important artists involved in that scene, such as Mike Smith's The Whole Thing and Dennis Rollins.
During the same decade, in different stages, he was involved in most of the Salsa and Cuban related project to originate from London. His collaborations in that field include, amongst others, Jesus Alemani, Snowboy, Alex Wilson, Tumbaito, Herman Oliveira.
He has also toured and/or recorded with Paul McCartney, Paul Young, Kaidi Tatham and Dego McFarland.

With drummer Davide Giovannini he was co-founder of the duo Afroshock, the activity of which spanned from 1989 to 2000. Afroshock released only one album, in 1998: “ Accommodating Gods”, a creative tribute to the music of Cuban Santeria, still talked about by the few hundreds who bought it as one of the most important works for percussion music to come out of the UK in the nineties.

After the Afroshock experience, he gradually starts drifting off the Funk and Latin scene of London, and begins to give more time and attention to what were, after all, the main reasons that drew him towards music in the first place, as a child and an adolescent: improvisation, exploration of unknown musical territories, de-structuring of known and established musical languages.

In 2000 Maurizio joined Ezzthetic, a community of visual artists, actors, musicians and artists from other disciplines based in Italy, with which he collaborated on a number of productions in the fields of theatre, cinema, installation and visual art.
In October 2005 Ezzthetic released their only commercially available CD, called simply “ezzthetic_ep”, out in UK with the F-IRE Label. After the release of the EP, with an abrupt braking, Ezzthetic ceased its activities as a collective.

In London, he is nowadays an active element of Not Applicable, a congregation of artists originally started by Sam Britton and Ollie Bown, from laptop duo Icarus.
Also a member of the F-IRE collective, within which he is involved in the bateria de samba Rhythms of the City, the sextet Meta Meta, and the collective’s big band, the F-ire Large Ensemble, which is currently engaged on a series of concerts around the country.
He is currently working at developing a personal language in improvised music. The album "Five Loose Plans", with Isambard Khrustaliov, out on the Not Applicable label is the first document of his work in this direction.

While in his collaboration with Isambard Maurizio centers his playing around the realm of found objects, and sound metamorphoses achieved through the combination of different materials, in his duo with tuba player Oren Marshall Maurizio is limiting his field of action to his first and dearest instrument, the conga drums. During the last couple of years Oren and Maurizio's duo has performed extensively around London's improvised music venues, and they recently completed the recording of an album they both would like to find the time to edit and mix some time soon.

Sound documents of both duos's selected live performances are available as free downloadable mp3s on the files section of this website.

Maurizio is presently a regular member of Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat ensemble, Sonti Mndebele's band, Meta Meta, Rhythms of the City, the Isambard Khroustaliov / Maurizio Ravalico duo, the Oren Marshall / Maurizio Ravalico duo and he plays percussion for several contemporary dance schools around London.