Isabella Carucci

Isabella Carucci, age 21, is the winner of the 2024 Solo Honors Competition and performed “Renaissance Concerto” by Lukas Foss as a soloist with the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra in April 2024. Most recently, she has won first prize at the Bellagrande International Music Competition (2023), honorable mention for MTNA Woodwind Young Artist Competition (2023), and second place for the Darlene Dugan Young Artist Competition (2024). She looks forward to attending Aspen this summer as a flutist in the Orchestral Program!

A student of Amy Porter, she studies flute performance and minors in academic writing at the University of Michigan. She is a substitute piccolo player for the Lima Symphony Orchestra, and she spent last summer performing with the Eastern Festival Orchestra and the Mostly Modern Festival Orchestra.

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She is an editor and writer for the NY Flute Club Newsletter, and she was a 2024 EXCELerator Performing Arts Fellow for her non-profit, the Flute Pedagogy Project. Additionally, winning grants from the EXCEL Enterprise Fund and U-M Arts Initiative, she has commissioned and performed works focused on exploring the effects of climate change and its part in contributing to larger social inequality in the United States and, separately, the emotional impacts of the Ukrainian-Russo War on the Ukrainian and Russian citizens. Both featured electronics and visual aids for audiences – posters with research from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and original charcoal drawings from a Russian visual artist, respectively.

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A product of LaGuardia High School of the Arts (Fame!), Isabella is proud to be the salutatorian of the class of 2021 and recipient of the Fiorello Award of Exemplary Leadership and Service and the Edith Hall Friedheim Award for music.