Ingrid Carbone has been interviewed by Marcello Lardo during the broadcast “In 3 minutes” by 9Colonne. The interview will be aired from January 16th, 2026 on Radio Roma Capitale. You can listen to the interview here>>
You can also read a transcript in this page.
A promoter of Italian music and culture around the world: pianist and mathematician Ingrid Carbone.
I’m Marcello Lardo from the Nove Colonne agency, and this is the topic of the new episode of our column dedicated to Italians abroad.
Ingrid Carbone is a Calabrian concert pianist with a career spanning music, scientific research, and cultural dissemination. She has performed in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She has recorded for the Japanese label De Vinci Publishing, receiving two nominations at the International Classical Music Awards and eight awards at the Global Music Awards for her recordings.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated with schools, universities, conservatories, and cultural institutions in Italy and abroad, including the Italian Embassy in Jordan, the Italian Consulate in Jerusalem, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Krakow.
Through her concerts, she aims to promote Italian musical culture in the Middle East and beyond, strengthening intercultural dialogue. Let’s listen to her.
Traveling to the Middle East means being open, curious, and interested in their culture, including their musical tradition.
When I visited the Middle East for the first time, for example, I played pieces by Ruggero Leoncavallo dedicated specifically to the Arab world, because Leoncavallo had lived in Egypt. I felt it was a fitting tribute to my hosts.
I played music by Domenico Scarlatti, and music by Franz Liszt dedicated to Italy. This cultural exchange is the cornerstone of all my travels to the Middle East, where I went not only to bring Western music and my knowledge, but to enrich myself through a culture distant from our own, yet profoundly fascinating.
Alongside her artistic career, Carbone works in academia: she is a professor and researcher in Mathematical Analysis at the University of Calabria. Her approach to musical interpretation is influenced by this training, which integrates analytical rigor and expressive sensitivity.
My mathematical background, and especially my academic work—research, teaching, and even the popularization of mathematics—definitely influences my music.
I realized this a few years ago: it helps me study and delve deeper into the score, following a logical-deductive method, a scientific approach that I find in my own way of studying and practicing mathematics.
I believe mathematics has an added value for my music.
Alongside his concert activity, he is strongly committed to musical dissemination, particularly through his concert-conversations, a method of dissemination unique in the international music scene.
This method stems from my need to share what I know, to spread the word.
I use it to bring the public closer, to ensure that classical music isn’t perceived as something reserved for a select few, but as something everyone can understand.
My concert-conversations—as I call them to distinguish them from concert-lessons, which are often more geared towards a specialized audience—are encounters in which I talk about myself, my journey, and what I see in music, offering listeners a guide to what I call conscious listening.
