THETo pianist and concertist Ingrid Carbone intertwines the passion for art with that for mathematics. Graduated in piano at the Cosenza music conservatory, where she was born, she currently teaches mathematical analysis at the University of Calabria where she graduated in Mathematics in 1992.
Since 2020, he has started to decline his international experience in musical teaching in an innovative format – the “concert conversations” – which uses an analytical approach to bring a heterogeneous audience closer to the work of classic composers.
7 am
«I wake up one of my three cats saved from the street, like the dog. I put on La Moka and I have breakfast: I can’t resist my mother’s cakes, who lives like me on the hills of the province of Cosenza ». 8 am the touch that never lacks its outfit is the hat.
Ingrid Carbone during a unical lesson.
8 am
«When I decide how to dress, I am very attentive to the accessories, especially to the hats that I have a collection. If I have lesson, before reaching the University of Calabria by car, where I teach mathematical analysis, I see the notes of the day ».
The touch that never fails to his outfit is the hat.
9.30 am
«The mornings are dedicated to teaching, research or student receipt. I have always loved the numbers, a passion that my father, professor of mathematics, was happy to encourage. For a long time I feared that my “artistic” part was weakened by mathematical rigor. Then I understood that studying a score in an analytical way allows you to master it enough to be able to interpret it even more freely. An aspect that – as I say to my students – unites the study of mathematics to that of an instrument is that the results come over time: it takes a lot of passion, constancy and determination ».
1 pm
«I go back and lunch with my husband, a retired mathematics professor. I am not a vegetarian – among my favorite dishes the cracked cabbage leaves with meat filling – but I am very attentive to the quality of the food ».
3pm
“When I do not teach, they are often on tour with the” Convergezioni Concerti “, a format that I developed in 2019 in China, where our classical and musical teaching tradition does not exist. They combine the execution of a passage to dialogue with the public, often addressed by the framework that I propose in a historical-literary-pictoric perspective. The “mathematical” analysis of the score allows me to isolate, for example, the movements that most characterize a given era, or a style of composition, and emphasize them during the execution of the song by guiding the public in a conscious listening. Soon I will be at the conference of the Musicology Society of Australia ».
4 pm
«I play the piano every day, at least three hours. Now I am studying Liszt: I love the deep spiritual resonance of scores such as the preaching to birds, musical representation of an episode of the life of St. Francis. I keep the door of the music room well closed, otherwise the cats slip … Under the pedals, on the keys, even in the arms while I play! ». 8 pm After dinner, he often dives into a book by Simenon.
The house piano, on which Ingrid Carbone studies at least three hours every day.
8pm
“My husband says that this is the hour of the day” back-up “: we listen to the news while we have dinner and chatting about future projects. After dinner I like to stop ideas on sheets of paper, writing in pen. Sometimes I go on until late at night. Otherwise, I read. I have a boundless passion for Simenon and I am reading his last book I miss: Cargo (Adelphi). I think then I will begin to reread all his books in the original language … ».