List of classical piano duos (performers)

The term piano duo can refer both to a genre of music, written for two pianists to play at either one or two pianos, or to the two pianists themselves.

This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as piano duet) as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this repertoire, but some also appeared separately as solo pianists.

Some piano duos appear under a single name (such as the Long Island Piano Duo), or a unified name (such as Nettle & Markham), but the majority simply use both their names (such as Katia and Marielle Labèque or Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir).

People in this list should not be added to List of classical pianists unless they also had significant careers as solo pianists. However, if they recorded music requiring two pianists, they should be added to List of classical pianists (recorded).

List of classical piano duos

Sorting note: The main entry is sorted by the pianist whose surname appears earlier in the alphabet, and the other pianist is cross-referenced in smaller type. Where their names are usually referred to in a different order, or they use a special name for their duo, that entry appears in the 2nd column.

Members	Name of duo (where relevant)	Notes and references
Stephanie Kapsetaki Marianna Kapsetaki	Kapsetaki duo	Greek/British concert pianists and scientists
Saar Ahuvia Stephanie Kai-Win Ho	Stephanie and Saar Duo	^[1]
Millette Alexander Frank Daykin	Alexander and Daykin	^[2]
Vera Appleton Michael Field	Appleton and Field	Alan Hovhaness wrote his Symphony No. 45, Op. 342 (1954) for them, but they never played it.^[3]
Martha Argerich Nelson Freire
Vladimir Ashkenazy André Previn	seen in either order
Victor Babin Vitya Vronsky	Vronsky & Babin
Alexander Bakhchiev Elena Sorokina	Elena Sorokina and Alexander Bakhchiev	^[4]
Jean-Jacques Balet Mayumi Kameda
Ethel Bartlett Rae Robertson	Bartlett and Robertson
Aglaia Bätzner Cristina Marton		^[5]
Harold Bauer Ossip Gabrilowitsch	seen in either order
David Bradshaw Cosmo Buono	Bradshaw-Buono Duo	Discography includes: Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Fest-Polonaise, The Entrance of the Guests to the Wartburg, Benediction and Sermon, March and Cavatina and Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale 'Ad nos, Ad Salutarem undam'. ^[6]
Lidija Bizjak Sanja Bizjak	Bizjak Piano Duo
Vittorio Bresciani Francesco Nicolosi	Franz Liszt Piano Duo	They have recorded Bresciani's arrangement of Liszt's Dante Sonata, and Liszt's arrangement of the Dante Symphony.^[7]
Jeremy Brown Seta Tanyel		Recorded Poulenc's complete music for 2 pianists.^[8]
Lyubov Bruk Mark Taimanov	seen in either order	^[9]
Antoinette Cann Claire Cann	Claire and Antoinette Cann	^[4]
Josee Caron Martin Caron	Duo Caron
Robert Casadesus Gaby Casadesus
Abram Chasins Constance Keene	seen in either order
Angela Cheng Alvin Chow		^[4]
Caroline Clemmow Anthony Goldstone	Goldstone and Clemmow	Made the world premiere recording of the two-piano arrangement of Grieg's Concerto in A minor, written by Grieg and Károly Thern. Also the first recording of Grieg's piano version of the "Homage March" from Sigurd Jorsalfar.^[10] They have recorded the piano duet version of Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor (arr. Chopin and Carl Mikuli)^[11]^[12]
Mark Clinton Nicole Narboni	Clinton/Narboni Duo	^[4]
John Contiguglia Richard Contiguglia	Richard and John Contiguglia	Made the first recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the two-piano transcription by Franz Liszt; revived Victor Babin's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; gave New York premiere of Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor; made many world premiere recordings of works by Liszt and Bartók.^[13]
Romola Costantino Lance Dossor
Patrick Crommelynk Taeko Kuwata	Duo Crommelynk	They were a very prominent duo, founded in 1974; their three-disc set of the four-hand works of Schubert won a Grand Prix du Disque; many composers wrote works for them. They both died by suicide on 14 July 1994.^[14]^[15]
Francesco De Stefano Vincenzo De Stefano	De Stefano Piano Duo	^[16]
Larissa Dedova Mikhail Volchok		^[4]
Luis del Valle Victor del Valle	Victor and Luis del Valle	^[1]
Cipa Dichter Misha Dichter		^[4]
Liuben Dimitrov Aglika Genova	Genova & Dimitrov	Made world premiere recording of the complete piano duo works of Shostakovitch.^[17]^[18]
Leo van Doeselaar Wyneke Jordans	Jordans & Van Doeselaar Piano Duo	^[19]
Clément Doucet Jean Wiener	Wiener et Doucet
Bracha Eden Alexander Tamir
Monika Egri Attila Pertis	Duo Egri and Pertis	^[4]
Irina Elkina Julia Elkina		^[4]^[20]
Sebastian Euler Shao-Yin Huang	Duo d´Accord	Made the premiere recording of Clara Schumann's arrangement for piano 4-hands of Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44.^[21]
Lindley Evans Frank Hutchens
Arthur Ferrante Louis Teicher	Ferrante & Teicher
Jacques Février Francis Poulenc
Robert Fizdale Arthur Gold	Gold and Fizdale
Helen Fogel Karl Ulrich Schnabel
Claude Frank Lillian Kallir
Irwin Freundlich Lillian Freundlich	Lillian and Irwin Freundlich	^[4]
Takashi Fujii Yoshie Shiramizu-Fujii	Yoshie and Takashi	^[1]
Ute Gareis Klaus-Georg Pohl	Gareis & Pohl	European premiere of J.Adams "Hallelujah junction" (2000)^[22]
Rhondda Gillespie Robert Weatherburn
Arianna Goldina Remy Loumbrozo	Goldina & Loumbrozo	^[23]^[24]
Nadya Gordon Steven Gordon		^[4]
Bradford Gowen Maribeth Gowen	Maribeth and Bradford Gowen	^[4]
Polina Grigoryeva Yulia Yurchenko	Piano Duo Vis-à-vis	^[1]
Andreas Groethuysen Yaara Tal	Duo Tal & Groethuysen
Roberto Guerra Margherita Malagoli	Margherita Malagoli and Roberto Guerra	^[4]
Thomas Hecht Sandra Shapiro	Thomas Hecht and Sandra Shapiro	^[4]^[23]
Ákos Hernádi Károly Mocsári	Hernádi-Mocsári Piano Duo	Recorded works by Bartók, including a duo-piano arrangement of The Miraculous Mandarin.^[25]
Cara Hesse Laura Pauna		^[1]
Norman Horowitz Melvin Stecher	Stecher and Horowitz Piano Duo	^[26]
Olga Hoteeva Andrej Hoteev		Made the world premiere recording of 22 unknown original transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano for four hands after Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty.^[27]^[28]
Richard Humburger Valentin Humburger	Piano Duo Humburger	^[29]
Amparo Iturbi José Iturbi
Christian Ivaldi Noël Lee
Michael Jamanis Frances Veri	Frances Veri and Michael Jamanis	^[4]
Dorothy Jonas Joshua Pierce		^[4]
Geneviève Joy Jacqueline Robin	Jacqueline Robin and Genevieve Joy
Alfred Kanwischer Heidi Kanwischer	Heidi and Alfred Kanwischer	^[4]
Andrey Kasparov Oksana Lutsyshyn	Invencia Piano Duo	In collaboration with Naxos Records, on its Grand Piano series, they have released four CDs of Florent Schmitt's complete duo-piano works.^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33]
Beatriz Klien Walter Klien	Walter and Beatriz Klien
Christian Köhn Silke-Thora Matthies		Recorded 17 CDs of all Brahms's arrangements for piano 4-hands or 2 pianos (mostly of his own music, but including Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat.^[34]
Alfons Kontarsky Aloys Kontarsky	seen in either order	They have given first performances of works by Luciano Berio, Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen,^[35] Henri Pousseur, Luis de Pablo and Bernd Alois Zimmermann.^[36]^[37]
Irina Kotlyar Gregory Shifrin	Kotlyar-Shifrin Piano Duo	^[38]^[39]
Mina Kusumoto Laurie Kono Merchant	Koshka Piano Duo	^[40]
Aleksei Kuznetsoff Valentina Lisitsa	Valentina Lisista and Alexei Kuznetsoff	^[4]^[41]
Katia Labèque Marielle Labèque
Carles Lama Sofia Cabruja	Carles and Sofia piano duo
Walter Landauer Marjan Rawicz	Rawicz and Landauer	Played mainly light classics and arrangements of existing works.^[42]
Vlastimil Lejsek Vera Lejskova
Josef Lhévinne Rosina Lhévinne
Matteo Liva Michelangelo Stregapede	Piano Duo Liva-Stregapede	They play unusual repertoire such as Saint-Saëns' 2-piano arrangement of Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Shostakovich's arrangement of Honegger's Symphony No. 3; performed world premieres of works by Ástor Piazzolla, unpublished versions for 2 pianos and a version for piano duo by Casella of Beethoven's 9 symphonies, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony.^[43]
Vassili Lobanov Sviatoslav Richter	Sviatoslav Richter and Vassili Lobanov	^[44]
Sonja Lončar Andrija Pavlović	LP Piano Duo	^[1]
Beatrice Long Christine Long	Christine and Beatrice Long	^[4]
James Longford Lindy Tennent-Brown	Longford-Brown Piano Duo	^[1]
Jack Lowe Arthur Austin Whittemore	Whittemore and Lowe	^[45]
Pierre Luboshutz Genia Nemenoff	Luboshutz and Nemenoff	^[46]^[47]
Brenda Lucas John Ogdon		^[48]
Radu Lupu Murray Perahia	seen in either order
Witold Lutosławski Andrzej Panufnik		^[49]
Luis Magalhaes Nina Schumann	Magalhaes and Schumann Piano Duo	^[4]
Margarita Malinova Olga Malinova		^[4]
Richard Markham David Nettle	Nettle & Markham	In 1985 they gave the UK premiere of Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor (with Sir Charles Groves and the Hallé Orchestra) and they were the first duo to give concert performances of The Planets in Holst's own two-piano version.^[50]^[51]
Jeffrey Marlowe Ronald Marlowe	Marlowe Brothers
Yaltah Menuhin Joel Ryce-Menuhin		The first duo to record the entire works for piano duo/duet by Mozart.
Dominique Morel Douglas Nemish	Morel-Nemish Duo	^[23]^[52]
Anne-Marie Mot Monique Mot		^[24]
Begonia Uriarte Mrongovius Karl-Hermann Mrongovius		^[53]
Christina Naughton Michelle Naughton		The twin-sister piano duo are graduates of the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music, where they were each awarded the Festorazzi Prize. They are Steinway Artists and currently reside in New York City.^[54] Christina and Michelle Naughton’s first album was released on the label ORFEO in 2012.^[55]
Harry Neal Allison Nelson	Nelson and Neal
Max Olding Pamela Page	seen in either order
Ferhan Önder Ferzan Önder		^[4]
Anthony Paratore Joseph Paratore	Anthony & Joseph Paratore	William Bolcom wrote his Sonata in One Movement for them; they premiered Alban Berg's transcription of Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, Op. 9; Dave Brubeck entrusted his original two-piano music to them and they premiered his "Points on Jazz".
Güher Pekinel Süher Pekinel	Pekinel sisters or Güher and Süher Pekinel
Maxim Puryzhinskiy Irina Silivanova	Irina and Maxim	^[29]
Peter Rostal Paul Schaefer	Rostal and Schaefer	^[56]
Joan Rowland Karl Ulrich Schnabel		Schnabel formed this duo after the death of his first duo partner, his wife Helen Fogel (see Helen Fogel, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel)
Milton Salkind Peggy Salkind		^[4]
Naomi Sanchez Stephen Varney	Pas de Duo	^[57]
Dinis Schemann Susanne Schemann	Susanne and Dinis Schemann	^[4]
Phyllis Sellick Cyril Smith	Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick	Malcolm Arnold, Lennox Berkeley, Arthur Bliss, Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams all wrote concertos for them.
Sontraud Speidel Evelinde Trenkner	Trenkner-Speidel Piano Duo	They have made world premiere CD recordings of Max Reger's arrangements of Bach's works.^[58]
Hans-Peter Stenzl Volker Stenzl	Stenzl Piano Duo	^[24]
Valeria Szervánszky Ronald Cavaye
Shan-shan Sun Per Tengstrand	Tengstrand-Sun Piano Duo	^[4]^[59]
Ottilie Sutro Rose Sutro	Rose and Ottilie Sutro	The Sutro sisters have been described as "the world's first recognised duo-piano team", but Willi and Louis Thern preceded them by almost 30 years. Max Bruch wrote his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor for them, but they never played it in its original form.
Alfred Teltschik Herbert Teltschik	Teltschik Brothers
Louis Thern Willi Thern	Willi and Louis Thern	Appeared in Europe from 1866.
Joan Trimble Valerie Trimble	Trimble Sisters	Arthur Benjamin wrote his best-known work, Jamaican Rhumba, for them.^[42]
Anne-Louise Turgeon Edward Turgeon	Duo Turgeon	^[17]^[60]
Vlada Vassilieva Anatoly Zatin	Duo Petrof	^[61]^[62]
Susan Wang Sarah Wang		^[29]
Irina Zheleznov Maxim Zheleznov	Duo Zheleznov	^[41]

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