An article about Ingrid Carbone’s most recent performance in Catanzaro (Italy), as featured on La Nuova Calabria. You can read the full text (in italian) here>>
Here’s a translated excerpt.
A meeting of sounds, ideas, and reflections officially inaugurated the 2025–2027 two-year period of the Catanzaro chapter of FIDAPA BPW Italy, held on Friday, October 22nd in the Concert Hall of the Municipality of Catanzaro. The event, titled “Dissemination in Harmony. The Connection between Music and Mathematics,” featured Ingrid Carbone, an internationally renowned pianist and professor of mathematics at the University of Calabria, in conversation with Annarita Palaia, president of FIDAPA Catanzaro, and Daniela Faccio, president of the Friends of Music Association of Catanzaro.
Throughout the evening, Carbone took the audience on an intellectual and sensorial journey to discover the profound connection between music and science, two seemingly distant languages but, as the artist explained, “united by proportion, balance, and the search for meaning.”
In her speech, the artist explained how her approach to the two disciplines that define her has changed over time: “Until a few years ago, I saw mathematics as an obstacle to my musical career. Then, in 2019, during a tour in China, I was asked to give lessons for piano teachers, accompanied by projections and piano demonstrations. On that occasion, I realized how much my education and my university work influenced my music.”
Since then, she explained, her approach to studying music has become increasingly analytical: “I see the score as a demonstration of a theorem: nothing is superfluous, every sign has a meaning. I don’t rest until I find it. It’s a logical-deductive method that I also apply to music, in the preliminary study before the interpretative phase.”
During the conversation, Carbone was asked whether his popular concerts—where piano performances alternate with moments of explanation and dialogue with the audience—risk interrupting the emotional and “magical” dimension that traditionally accompanies music listening.
