Piano City Rome Concludes at the Capitoline: Free Concerts in the Metro and on the Pincio

Rome has been transformed for two days into the world's largest concert hall. It is Piano City Roma, the distributed festival making its debut in the Capital with 200 free concerts in 90 different venues: monumental squares, stations, jetties, museums, parks, reception centers, schools and hospitals, as reported by Il Messaggero.

From dawn on the Pincio to concerts in the metro

The closing day began at 6:45 a.m. on the Pincio terrace with the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone performed by his reference pianist, Gilda Buttà. Among the most original events, a recital aboard a Metro A train, traveling between Anagnina and Battistini, with Mojca Pregelic and Mario Donatone.

The ECM corner and the music squares

At the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, from 4 p.m., a special corner dedicated to ECM Records with Anna Gourari, Dominik Wania, Dénes Várjon, Giovanni Guidi and Nik Bärtsch. At the same time, Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere offers between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. music by Battiato, Zappa, Debussy, Sakamoto and Piovani.

The grand finale at the Capitoline

The celebration closes this evening at Piazza del Campidoglio with three keyboard protagonists, Leonora Armellini, Rita Marcotulli and Gilda Buttà, in a concert conducted by Paolo Celata. Closing the day, the PianoBici initiative will bring music to outlying neighborhoods: four traveling groups, BiciMozart, BiciDebussy, BiciFerrè and BiciJarrett, together with the Têtes de Bois band, will depart from the Capitoline until late into the night.

Born in Berlin in 2010 on the initiative of pianist Andreas Kern and already held in Milan, Madrid, Athens, Lisbon and New York, Piano City arrives in Rome thanks to the Piano City Roma association and support from the Department of Major Events. The goal is to make it a permanent fixture: from next year the festival will be moved up to May, to become a tradition of Roman spring.