Venice: Lucy the Piano Arrives at Santa Lucia Train
Station. Lucy the Piano, named after the station’s saint, arrived at Venice
Santa Lucia train station not by train but by boat, and is placed on the left
of the lobby under a departure and arrival board. Donated by composer, singer songwriter and
pianist Sofia Taliani to the city as part of the project United Street Pianos Italia, which aims to place a piano in every station. In the world there are currently more than
700 pianos in 30 cities, each with the inscription "Play me. I'm yours."
Photograph courtesy Daisy Rickman
Venice: Stazione Santa Lucia - Lucy the Piano.
Sofia Taliani was inspired by her experience of playing the piano for two
months inside London's St. Pancras station, where the participation of a large
number of people played, listened to, communicated with each other almost 24
hours a day making the station a more human and alive place through the station's three
pianos. The purpose of
"United Street Pianos Italia" is to bring people together' to offer
a tool and a place where everyone is equal and the opportunity to remind
the world that we are all human.
Above. Sofia Taliani played the piano accompanied by
the flute of Giulio Giannelli Viscardi.
Sofia Taliani and Giulio Giannelli Viscardi
Venice: Stazione Santa Lucia - Lucy the Piano. Architect Giovanni Rubin de Cervin Albrizzi, to
whose father, the late Venetian composer and writer Ernesto Rubin de Cervin the
piano is dedicated, photographed with artist Lilli Doriguzzi.
Venice: Stazione Santa Lucia - Lucy the Piano. Twenty-year-old
singer songwriter Nadir Dal Grande chips in with his composition Liberta.
Video artist Anita Sieff, jewelry designer Antonia
Miletto, artist Lilli Doriguzzi and Andriana Marcello
Benedetta Gaggia and Lorenza Savini
Venice: Stazione Santa Lucia - Lucy the Piano. The talented nineteen-year-old filmmaker
Daisy Rickman, from Cornwall was documenting the whole event.
photograph and copyright manfredi bellati
Venice: Stazione Santa Lucia - Lucy the Piano. As Daisy
Rickman filmed and Sofia Taliani played accompanied by the beautiful soprano
jazz voice of Claudia Graziadei the crowds drew round.
Manager Chiara Gradella, architect Matthias
Burhenne and actor, author and music buff Maria Novella Papafava dei Carraresi,
who also improvised vocalization to the music played by Sofia Taliani.
designed and courtesy - Pieluca Albanese
Believe in Utopia
What does that mean?
"Dreams coming true"
"Utopia, an ideal place"
We want to create a place where you can express without being judged, where you can feel good and express your feelings without being afraid.
Sofia Taliani – United Street
Pianos Italia