Great satisfactions for the Cosenza pianist Ingrid Carbone. The latest is represented by two silver medals at the Global Music Awards for the live recording in Amman of “Granadinas” from Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Spanish Album in the Instrumentalist and Live Performance categories.
«“Music Beyond Borders” is the title I chose for this recording, very dear to me», says Ingrid Carbone, «a video recorded in Amman (Jordan), during a conversation-concert in the magnificent Al-Hussein Cultural Center. In the previous two days I had held masterclasses at the National Conservatory of Music. I love to travel, I love the Middle East and I feel at home there and wherever I go. The theater was full of people from different countries, different religions, different feelings, different origins, different cultures, different traditions: invited by the Italian Embassy in Amman I played the beautiful “Granadinas”, the fourth and final composition of the Spanish Album. The beautiful Granada has a strong Arab influence, Ruggiero Leoncavallo is an Italian composer. The Italian, Spanish and Arab cultures are closely linked to each other also through this song. With this show I wanted to make everyone feel close, because music goes beyond borders. This piece is contained in my double CD “Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Pour Piano” published by Da Vinci Publishing, Japan».
These two silver medals add to the other two that the CD received from the 2022 Global Music Awards and the nomination at the 2023 International Classical Music Awards.