Letizia Caspani (born 2000) is an Italian flutist who combines the classical repertoire with a strong vocation for new music, multidisciplinarity, and immersive performative formats. After graduating from the B. Zucchi Music High School in Monza, she continued her studies at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana with Karl Alfred Rutz, where she completed the Pre-College program (2020) and the Bachelor of Arts in Music (2023), focusing in particular on the interaction between flute and electronics. She then pursued a master’s degree at the Civica School of Music Claudio Abbado in Milan with Flavio Alziati, where in 2025 she obtained the second-level academic diploma in flute with highest honors and distinction, presenting a thesis dedicated to theatricality in the contemporary flute repertoire.
Alongside her studies, she has developed an intense artistic activity in ensembles and experimental projects. Since 2022 she has been flutist, co-founder, and president of the Wind Rose Flute Quartet, with which she develops programs aimed at the dissemination of musical culture. With the quartet she has realized major projects such as Studio Ghibli in Concert, a performance that combines Joe Hisaishi’s film scores with the projection of scenes from Studio Ghibli films; this production received the patronage of the Consulate of Japan in Italy. In addition, she has developed and taken part in other projects, including Viaggio nella Lirica, an outreach project dedicated to the Italian operatic repertoire arranged for four flutes and solo singer, and Tangos-4-women, a production celebrating feminine beauty and strength through dance.
Her performance activity also extends to new music. In 2025 she was flutist for the New Music Project at the San Marino International Music Summer Courses, working on new compositions by young composers (Nicola Mecca, Adrian Mihai, and Anna Troisi). Since 2024 she has performed on flute, piccolo, and alto flute with the Ensemble Irmus of the Civica School of Music Claudio Abbado, an ensemble that performs new works by young composers written for short films.
Since 2020 she has taken part in several research projects at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana dedicated to music therapy in social and healthcare contexts: Musica in casa per anziani; Music Park, in collaboration with the Swiss Red Cross, focused on the effects of music on patients with Parkinson’s disease; and Musica per noi at the LAC in Lugano, aimed at people and families with neurodiversity. In each of these projects, flute performance takes on relational, participatory, and site-specific dimensions.
Between 2019 and 2020 she collaborated as second flute with the Orchestra Giovanile della Svizzera Italiana. Her artistic development has also been enriched by masterclasses with leading figures of the international flute scene, including Nicola Campitelli, Paolo Rossi, Laura Faoro, Alberto Barletta, Sébastian Jacot, Raffaele Trevisani, Michele Marasco, and Enzo Caroli, as well as an orchestral excerpts course with Andrea Oliva attended during her bachelor’s studies.
In 2023 she won the wind section of the International Competition for the Interpretation of Contemporary Music at the Reate Festival, an award that further strengthened her interest in modern and experimental repertoire.
Alongside music, she has pursued a long-standing path in classical and modern dance, begun in 2006 and still ongoing. This training significantly contributes to her conception of musical gesture. In 2024 she performed in the leading role of Pandora in the show Lo scrigno di Pandora, combining dance, mime, and flute performance into a single scenic dimension.
She is a student of the Fondazione Accademia di Musica since 2025.
