Biography

Ingrid Carbone is an Italian international concert pianist, mathematician, and Artistic Researcher. She is a pioneer in bridging formal mathematical analysis with classical performance, focusing her research on the cognitive and interpretive optimization of musical repertoire.

In recent years she has received two nominations from the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), one of the most prestigious international recognitions in classical music, selecting the best recordings worldwide, as well as eight prizes from the Global Music Awards (GMA) in the USA for two live recordings and for all her albums (recorded for Da Vinci Classics, Japan) and widely reviewed by the specialist press. She has also received several honors, such as the “Scarlatti Special Mention” and the “Piano Special Mention” from the New York IBLA Foundation, the Rotary Award “La Città del Sole,” the FIDAPA BPW Award “Donna del Sud,” and several lifetime achievement awards.

Her academic background deeply influences her artistic work, enabling her to develop an original communication strategy that is greatly appreciated by audiences. Alongside her concert activity, she is strongly committed to music outreach, particularly through her conversation-concerts, a unique method of musical communication she created and has successfully presented across Europe, Asia, the Middle East (in Jordan, in Israel – Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, in the Palestinian Territories – Ramallah and Bethlehem) and Latin America. Her work has notably attracted the attention of the New Zealand and Australian Musicological Societies, who invited her to their 2025 joint meeting. She has given concerts, piano pedagogy lectures and masterclasses also in collaboration with Italian diplomatic institutions, and she has carried out numerous outreach events for schools and universities, including conversations-concerts on music and mathematics, such as the one she gave for the 2025 Cagliari Science Festival.

Ingrid Carbone is strongly engaged in social and humanitarian causes and has given several benefit concerts. Her repertoire ranges from the Baroque era to the twentieth century, with particular attention to composers who dedicated music to Italy and to Italian composers such as Domenico Scarlatti and Ruggiero Leoncavallo, whose entire piano output she recorded in a double album. Leoncavallo’s Notturno has fully entered the list of most successful piano pieces, having surpassed 200,000 views on YouTube.

Ingrid Carbone began her musical education at the Conservatory of Music of Cosenza, her hometown, where she earned her piano diploma at the age of 19 under Francesco Monopoli and where she studied Composition for several years. During the celebrations for the Conservatory’s 50th anniversary, she was selected as the graduate pianist with the most distinguished artistic career. She continued her studies in Italy and abroad at prestigious academies such as the Internationale Sommerakademie – Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes in Israel, the Associazione Cultura e Musica G. Curci and the Accademia Musicale Pescarese in Italy, studying with renowned pianists such as Lazar Berman, Cristiano Burato, Sergio Cafaro, Hector Pell, Andrzej Pikul, Aquiles delle Vigne, and composition with the Argentine pianist and composer Eduardo Ogando.

An eclectic personality, she has always cultivated her passion for mathematics, earning her master’s degree at the age of 21 cum laude at the University of Calabria. At 27 she won the national competition for an Assistant Professor position at the University of Bari. She has published scientific articles in prestigious international journals and has been invited to deliver talks and lectures in Europe and Canada. She currently teaches Mathematical Analysis at the University of Calabria, where she carries out her research activity and where she also served for several years as Chair of the Technical-Scientific Library.

Ingrid Carbone is a Bechstein pianist.