Ore12 Magazine has relaunched an interview with Ingrid Carbone originally issued by Luca La Mantia (Lapresse). You can read the ful text (in italian) here>>

Pianist, mathematician, and music and culture communicator Ingrid Carbone returns to Italy in April with two events focusing on music and mathematics. The first, titled “Invisible Architectures of the Musical Text: The Mathematical Method in Interpretative Choices,” will be held on April 10th at Palazzo Chimirri in Serra San Bruno, Vibo Valentia, as part of the National Congress of Mathesis (Italian Society of Mathematical and Physical Sciences). The second, “Rigor that Unveils the Mysteries of Interpretation,” will take place on April 17th (3:00 PM) in the Carini Dainotti Conference Room of the Cremona State Library, during the Music and Intelligence Conference. “I confess to feeling privileged,” Carbone explains to LaPresse, “because through my education, and especially through my many academic activities (teaching, research, seminars, and conferences), I can see the perfect structure within and behind every score.” Carbone confesses that this awareness dates back “several years ago, specifically to 2018-2019, when, at the start of my recording project and a tour in China, I realized I was studying music—and I’m talking about both pieces from my repertoire and new pieces—looking at it differently, just as I work on the complex proof of a complex theorem. The mathematical mind helps me understand and memorize, because it shows me translations, symmetries, groups, and aggregation points. All this helps me enter the composer’s mind and directs me toward an interpretation that is mine, unique and strictly personal.” At upcoming events, Ingrid Carbone will offer a talk dedicated to her original approach that unites mathematics and music, born from the encounter between academic research in Mathematical Analysis and her international concert activity. An authentic interpretation, stripped of many “encrustations,” through his “concert-conversations,” “I guide the audience toward conscious listening. This is possible thanks to the familiarity I’ve acquired through many years of teaching, even in classrooms with hundreds of students, and thanks to the practice of giving lectures to large, qualified audiences.”