Crespi was a "celebrated violinist" who toured in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She played Tchaikovsky's
Violin Concerto in D at the
Promenade Concerts in London in 1912. "Her technique is excellent and she gave the work with intelligence and artistic insight of no small order for a young violinist", reported the
Musical News of her Proms appearance. She also played at
Bechstein Hall in 1912 and 1914. In 1914, a British collector gave Crespi a manuscript of a "secret exercise" written by
Niccolò Paganini, along with a letter in Paganini's hand. Crespi lived in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s. She performed at a "socialst musical festival" in
Carnegie Hall in 1914. She gave concerts in Maine and Michigan in 1915. In 1916 she played at a benefit for the
Italian Red Cross the
Biltmore Hotel, and for the Humanitarian Cult at Carnegie Hall. In March 1919, she was part of the
musical ensemble for an Irish music festival at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. In late 1921, she performed at New York's
Aeolian Hall, and in a radio concert. She toured American Midwestern states in 1922 and 1923, and at the
University of South Dakota in 1927. One of her last American performances was for the Mozart Verein in
Port Chester, New York, late in 1929. ==Publications==