Letizia Michielon – Biography

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Letizia Michielon

Venetian pianist, composer and philosopher of music, Letizia Michielon is a multifaceted artist. Thanks to her neo-humanistic training, her own creative profile is the result of dialogue between different disciplines, always seeking an innovative and endlessly expanding aesthetic direction.

Since graduating at the age of sixteen with honours at the “B. Marcello” Music Conservatory in Venice under the guidance of her Maestro, Eugenio Bagnoli, she has embodied not only the passion for the study of sound, a synthesis of a wide-ranging cultural path, but also a conception of interpretation as a challenge projected into the future, capable of profoundly affecting the adventure of knowledge.

Debuting at the age of just fourteen in the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, she later perfected her art with M. Tipo, K. Bogino, A. Jasinski, P. Masi and M. Mika, embarking upon a concert career at a very young age leading her to perform in prestigious halls, such as Mozarteum in Salzburg, Schönberg Centre in Vienna, Kunstuniversität in Graz, Casal del Metge in Barcelona, Chopin Academy in Warsaw, BKA Theatre in Berlin, Mozart Hall in Bratislava, Mendelssohn Haus (Leipzig), Abravanel Hall (Salt Lake City), Pollack Hall (Montreal), New York University, La Fenice Opera House, “G. Cini” and “E. Vedova” Foundation in Venice, "G. Verdi" Conservatory in Milan, Olympic Theatre in Vicenza, Municipal Theatre in Ferrara, "G. Verdi" Theatre and Miela Theatre in Trieste.

In 2024 she debuted in Japan and China; in 2025 she is invited to the Osaka Expo where she will play some of her premieres and to New York for recitals, a lecture at the NYU and a world premiere performed by the Washington Square Ensemble.

For some years, she has dedicated herself to expounding upon Beethovenian thought, recording his complete sonatas and major piano works for the Limen Record Company in a production that intertwines the performance with scientific research aimed at deepening the neo-humanistic Bildung.

This work in progress has forged the Beethoven Project, underway at the Scuola Grande of San Rocco, where she will be playing Beethoven's complete sonatas as well as piano and orchestra concertos conducted by Francesco Fanna. She has also been performing complete piano sonatas by Beethoven at the Miela Theater (Trieste).

At the same time, again with Limen, she has launched the recording of the complete works by Chopin in addition to pieces by C. Debussy and M. Ravel. In May of 2024 the last cd dedicated to Chopin was presented at the Scala Theatre Museum (Milan).

Letizia Michielon's interpretative proficiency is firmly intertwined with her compositional experience.

After graduating in Composition, under the guidance of R. Vaglini, at the “B. Marcello” Music Conservatory, she received commissions from prominent international festivals, including the Music Biennale, La Fenice Opera House, Ex Novo Musica, Berlin BKA, Trieste Prima, Limoux Festival, and Washington Square Festival.

Her compositional journey has opened further horizons towards orchestral conducting, cultivated under the guidance of P. Bellugi, R. Rivolta and M. Summers, while even encompassing electronic music, which she studied at the Venice Conservatory.

Her works are often inspired by figurative impressions or philosophical and poetry readings.

Philosophy effectively represents her third field of interest.

After graduating summa cum laude at Ca’ Foscari University, with a dissertation on the aesthetic writings of F. Schiller, she received a PhD in Pedagogical and Didactic Sciences at the University of Padua arguing a thesis on J.W. von Goethe. In 2019, she attained her second PhD in Philosophy of Music at Ca’ Foscari presenting a dissertation on Adorno's Beethoven.

She is member of the research group Orfeus (University of Verona), member of the research team collaborates pedagogical studies Study Centre Don Milani of the Genova University and of PERLa (Performance Epistemologies Research Lab) of IUAV University (Venice). She is part of the scientific committee of the review Ateneo and of the Impromptus series (EUT, Trieste), which comprises work in the form of essays on aesthetics, musicology and music philosophy.

She has published the volume Die Klage des Ideellen, The Lament of the Ideal, Beethoven and Hegelian philosophy (EUT, 2018), presented at the Pordenone Legge Festival, the monograph Sound laid bare. Counterpoints to Adorno's Beethoven (EUT, 2020) and My Music is Calligraphy. Sound and silence in the compositional thought of Toshio Hosokawa (EUT, 2022).

She has published for Cambridge Press, Il Poligrafo, Mimesis, Il Melangolo and EUT.

She is currently studying the relationship between music and neuroscience, the fascinating world of complex thinking and performance studies.

She teaches Piano Performance and Music and Performance at the “B. Marcello” Music Conservatory of Venice, where she was Coordinator of the Keyboard Department and Conservatory delegate for the academic platform Study in Venice (https://www.studyinvenice.it).

Currently she is the Coordinator of the Music, Performance and Technological Innovation Ph.D. Course offered by the Conservatory of Venice.

The enthusiasm for teaching, inherited from Maestro Bagnoli, initially led her to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. She later held master classes at prestigious international institutions such as MDW in Vienna, the Lugano Conservatory, the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, the Royal Conservatory in Madrid, the Trinity Laban in London, the Conservatory of Beijing (China), the Academy in Novi Sad, the Academy in Sarajevo, the New York University, and McGill University in Montreal.

In addition, she coordinated a Music and Performance workshop at the Miela Theater in Trieste and gave master classes in Talent Music Master Courses of Brescia.

Her recordings and interviews have been broadcast by RAI, Italian Swiss Radio, Capodistria Radio Television, Salt Lake City Radio, and Tokyo NHK.

As a journalist, she writes as critic of music for Il Giornale della Musica, Amadeus, Music Paper and Il Gazzettino.