Caroline Werba-Spicher is an internationally active flutist, music educator, and cultural manager. Since 2018, she has been deputy principal flute and principal piccolo in the City Light Symphony Orchestra, where she is particularly passionate about film music. With this orchestra, she regularly performs in well-known concert halls, including the KKL Luzern and the Royal Albert Hall in London.
She already gained international recognition as an academician with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. During the 2011 Salzburg Festival, she participated in numerous opera productions and chamber music ensembles. From 2008 to 2011, she was also engaged as principal flutist at the Stadttheater Baden (A) and accompanied this ensemble on annual opera productions to Japan, where she interpreted the great flute solos of opera literature, for example in Carmen. Concert tours with the Animato Foundation Academy, which promotes highly talented young orchestral musicians from all over Europe, have also taken her to Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, and Slovakia.
Caroline Werba-Spicher gained a wide range of orchestral experience, including with the Zurich Opera Orchestra (volunteer position), the Swiss Festival Orchestra, the Argovia Philharmonics, the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Schweiz, the Aargau Wind Soloists, the Fribourg Chamber Orchestra, the Glarus Music Society, and the Schwyz Symphony Orchestra.
She also pursues a versatile approach as a soloist. She finds it particularly appealing to engage with unusual projects and unconventional concert venues. For example, she premiered Olivier Waespi's double concerto for flute and guitar in Switzerland and presented Ian Clarke's “Zoom Tube” in Hölloch, one of the largest caves in the world.
Her musical career began early: at the age of nine, she had already decided that she wanted to become a flutist. She celebrated her first competition successes as a child. At the age of 15, she transferred from the Fribourg Conservatory (classes with Katharina Streit and Freddy Fankhauser) to the Hofwil Gymnasium in the music talent promotion program and to the Bern University of Applied Sciences to study with Heidi Péter-Indermühle. During this time, she already performed as a soloist with orchestras. She completed her bachelor's degree while also completing her high school diploma.
At the age of 21, she earned a master's degree in music education from the Zurich University of the Arts, followed in 2010 by a master's degree in performance, also with top marks, in the concert class of Prof. Maria Goldschmidt (solo flute, Zurich Opera House). She received further formative artistic inspiration from Janek Rosset, Sabine Poyé Morel, Haika Lübcke (Tonhalle Zurich), and Pamela Stahel, as well as in masterclasses with renowned flutists such as Emmanuel Pahud, Walter Auer, and José-Daniel Castellon. She has received several awards for her musical development, including prizes from the Freundeskreis Musik and the Zangger-Weber Foundation.
In addition to her artistic activities, Caroline Werba-Spicher is a passionate educator who passes on her enthusiasm for music to the next generation. Since 2008, she has also been involved in concert organization and in 2016 took over the management of the association tonmomente, which was founded as a further development of the concert agency on behalf of the Zurich University of the Arts.
