Mauro Carpi is an Italian jazz violinist born in Erice, in the province of Trapani, Sicily, on October 1, 1969. He performed as a singer from the age of four, began piano lessons at seven on the advice of singer-songwriter Bruno Martino and pianist Luciano Fineschi, and entered a conservatory violin program at ten, where he served as soloist with the school orchestra on its annual tours. After his diploma he pursued advanced violin studies in Florence under maestro Andrea Cappelletti, and formed a violin-piano duo in 1990 that won two national chamber-music competitions. His jazz training came afterward, studying with the Sicilian jazz pianists Giovanni Mazzarino and Salvatore Bonafede.

In 1997, guitarist and banjoist Lino Patruno, the central figure of postwar Italian Dixieland and swing, brought Carpi into his band. Discogs credits Carpi on violin on four Patruno-affiliated releases on the Lino Patruno Jazz Show label: "Bix & All That Jazz" (1998, with Patruno & The Red Pellini Gang), Stringin' the Blues (2002, billed to Mauro Carpi & Friends, with Patruno himself on guitar and banjo and pianist Romano Mussolini among the sidemen), the undated compilation Soundtracks (violin on the tracks drawn from the theatrical productions La Signora in Blues and California Suite, the latter alongside guitarist Michele Ariodante), and Remembering Spiegle (a tribute record featuring trombonist Spiegle Willcox). Musica Jazz magazine reviewed his playing in May 2002 as that of "an excellent musician skilled at traversing traditions." Through the Patruno connection Carpi performed at major international jazz festivals and represented Italy at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2011.

In 2003 Carpi founded his own group, the Acoustic Swing Trio, with guitarist Michele Ariodante and a bassist identified in Italian press coverage as Giorgio Rosciglione, built explicitly around the hot-violin lineage of Joe Venuti and Stephane Grappelli and a repertoire of Gershwin, Porter and Ellington standards alongside the Venuti-Eddie Lang violin-guitar duets of the late 1920s. The trio recorded Song for Stephane for Isma Records in 2005 and has continued performing at Italian jazz festivals and clubs into the 2020s, including a 2022 date at Rome's Villa Celimontana. As of 2025 Carpi also serves as artistic director of the Quintessenza Jazz Trapani festival at Trapani's Cine Teatro Ariston, where he continues to perform with the Acoustic Swing Trio.

Alongside his jazz work, Carpi has built a parallel career in Italian television and theater: first violin on the RAI variety program La Corrida for four seasons under conductor Roberto Pregadio beginning in 2004, a 2005 collaboration with bandleader Renzo Arbore, and violin work in stage and screen productions with performers including Enrico Montesano, Gigi Proietti, Pino Insegno and Arisa. He contributed violin to the incidental music for Franco Nero's 2005 film Forever Blues, whose score was composed by Lino Patruno; some Italian press bios credit Carpi with a David di Donatello nomination or award for the film's original song, though English-language sources documenting the film's awards credit only Patruno as composer and do not independently confirm a Carpi award. He currently holds the jazz violin teaching chair at the Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory of Music in Palermo.

Carpi plays in the hot-violin swing tradition pioneered by Joe Venuti and carried forward by Stephane Grappelli, a lineage he cites directly as the founding concept of his own Acoustic Swing Trio. His classical conservatory training and soloist background give his playing a technical polish that Italian jazz press has singled out, and his working life inside Lino Patruno's Dixieland and swing bands placed him for over two decades alongside musicians steeped in 1920s and 1930s American hot jazz repertoire. The Acoustic Swing Trio's programming, built on the Great American Songbook and on the historic Venuti-Eddie Lang violin-guitar duets, extends that same hot-jazz violin identity into a working small-group format under his own name.