Letícia Durante

Born in the city of São Paulo, Letícia has been a professor at the Conservatório de Tatuí (Brazil) since 2024. She holds a PhD in Music (2026) from the University of Aveiro (Portugal), in the field of Artistic Research, with her dissertation supervised by Professor Jorge Salgado Correia. Her research interests include performance as creation, music and movement, and the composer–performer relationship. She also holds two master’s degrees: one in Flute Performance (2018) and another in Flute Pedagogy (2020), both from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (Switzerland), and a bachelor’s degree in Flute (2015) from UNESP (Brazil).

Among the flautists who contributed to her training are José-Daniel Castellon, Loïc Schneider, Cássia Carrascoza, Sarah Hornsby, Jean-Noel Saghaard, Marcos Kiehl, and Hélcio de Latorre. She has performed as a soloist with the Amazonas Philharmonic Orchestra (2024), the Goiânia Symphony Orchestra (2024), the Symphonic Band of the Conservatório de Tatuí (2025), and the USP Chamber Orchestra (2016). As a flautist and piccolo player, she is frequently invited to collaborate with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and the USP Symphony Orchestra.

She has also performed with the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lausanne (Switzerland) and was principal flautist of the USP Chamber Orchestra (2016). She has appeared with various chamber music groups in Brazil and abroad, performing in Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, and Austria. Her most active chamber music project is Duo da Juá, with pianist Luiza Salles, with whom she has performed since 2017 at events and festivals across several Brazilian states. Since 2026, she has also been a member of the group Choro da Quitanda.

In 2020, she won first prize in her category at the 1st Online Solo Flute Competition of the Brazilian Flute Association.