Ingrid Carbone has been interviewed by Federico Arduini for the magazine La ragione – Le Ali delle Libertà.

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Here’s an excerpt

In Italy, we often tend to forget our excellence in every field, especially in the arts.
Yet, alongside stories of sacrifice and renunciation in the name of art, there are also journeys that demonstrate how passion can dialogue with rigor and how creativity does not exclude science, but
indeed can nourish it.
This is the case of Ingrid Carbone, concert pianist and university professor of mathematics, a rare figure on the international cultural scene: an artist and researcher, capable of seamlessly transitioning from the classroom to a stage in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. Her recordings for the Japanese label Da Vinci Publishing have garnered two nominations at the International Classical Music Awards and eight awards from the Global Music Awards, confirming a career built on talent, sensitivity, and an unconventional vision.
But what’s striking, meeting her, is the serenity with which she speaks of these two worlds—music and mathematics—as if they were, ultimately, two different languages ​​expressing the same harmony: “I understood this clearly in 2019, during a tour in China, shortly before the pandemic. I had to give some lessons for piano teachers. They asked me to prepare presentations on Italian music pedagogy. At first I was scared, but then I realized that organizing those talks, structuring them, illustrating them on the piano came naturally to me. It was the same method I use in mathematics: analysis, clarity, logic. From then on, I understood that these two parts of me communicate perfectly,” she told us.
From that day on, her concerts became an opportunity to share with audiences the universe hidden within the folds of scores, not only through the vibrant music of the piano, but also through words: “In my concerts, I talk about the pieces as I play them, I explain them to the audience. Not like traditional concert-lessons, where the spoken part is separate from the performed part, but by integrating storytelling and music. It’s a method that comes from my own way of explaining mathematics to students.”