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 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, or a unified name, but the majority simply use both their names.
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.

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.
MembersName of duo Notes and references

  • Saar Ahuvia
  • Stephanie Kai-Win Ho
Stephanie and Saar Duo
  • Millette Alexander
  • Frank Daykin
  • Alexander and Daykin
  • Arthur Ancelle
  • Ludmila Berlinskaya
  • Duo Berlinskaya-Ancelle
  • Vera Appleton
  • Michael Field
  • Appleton and FieldAlan Hovhaness wrote his Symphony No. 45, Op. 342 for them, but they never played it.
  • 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
  • Jean-Jacques Balet
  • Mayumi Kameda
  • Ethel Bartlett
  • Rae Robertson
  • Bartlett and Robertson
  • Aglaia Bätzner
  • Cristina Marton
  • Harold Bauer
  • Ossip Gabrilowitsch
  • seen in either order
  • David Bradshaw
  • Cosmo Buono
  • Bradshaw-Buono DuoDiscography 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'.
  • Lidija Bizjak
  • Sanja Bizjak
  • Bizjak Piano Duo
  • Hélène Boschi
  • Germaine Mounier
  • Duo Boschi-Mounier"Debussy, Clementi, Mozart, Busoni : Musique pour 2 pianos / vol.2 : En blanc et noir - Sonate / op. 12 n° 5 - Sonate / K. 448 - Fantasia contrappuntistica
  • Michela Chiara Borghese
  • Sabrina De Carlo
  • DuoKeira Piano Duo
  • Vittorio Bresciani
  • Francesco Nicolosi
  • Franz Liszt Piano DuoThey have recorded Bresciani's arrangement of Liszt's Dante Sonata, and Liszt's arrangement of the Dante Symphony.
  • Jeremy Brown
  • Seta Tanyel
  • Recorded Poulenc's complete music for 2 pianists.
  • Lyubov Bruk
  • Mark Taimanov
  • seen in either order
  • Antoinette Cann
  • Claire Cann
  • Cann Twins
  • Josee Caron
  • Martin Caron
  • Duo Caron
  • Robert Casadesus
  • Gaby Casadesus
  • Abram Chasins
  • Constance Keene
  • seen in either order
  • Angela Cheng
  • Alvin Chow
  • Caroline Clemmow
  • Anthony Goldstone
  • Goldstone and ClemmowMade 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. They have recorded the piano duet version of Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor
  • Mark Clinton
  • Nicole Narboni
  • Clinton/Narboni Duo
  • John Contiguglia
  • Richard Contiguglia
  • Richard and John ContigugliaMade 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.
  • Romola Costantino
  • Lance Dossor
  • Patrick Crommelynk
  • Taeko Kuwata
  • Duo CrommelynkThey 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.
  • Francesco De Stefano
  • Vincenzo De Stefano
  • De Stefano Piano Duo
  • Larissa Dedova
  • Mikhail Volchok
  • Luis del Valle
  • Victor del Valle
  • Victor and Luis del Valle
  • Cipa Dichter
  • Misha Dichter
  • Liuben Dimitrov
  • Aglika Genova
  • Genova & DimitrovMade world premiere recording of the complete piano duo works of Shostakovitch.
  • Leo van Doeselaar
  • Wyneke Jordans
  • Jordans & Van Doeselaar Piano Duo
  • Clément Doucet
  • Jean Wiener
  • Wiener et Doucet
  • Dubravka Vukalović Vlahek
  • Bruno Vlahek
  • D&B Duo
  • Bracha Eden
  • Alexander Tamir
  • Monika Egri
  • Attila Pertis
  • Duo Egri and Pertis
  • Irina Elkina
  • Julia Elkina
  • Sebastian Euler
  • Shao-Yin Huang
  • Duo d´AccordMade the premiere recording of Clara Schumann's arrangement for piano 4-hands of Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44.
  • 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
  • Takashi Fujii
  • Yoshie Shiramizu-Fujii
  • Yoshie and Takashi
  • Ute Gareis
  • Klaus-Georg Pohl
  • Gareis & PohlEuropean premiere of J.Adams "Hallelujah junction"
  • Rhondda Gillespie
  • Robert Weatherburn
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  • Arianna Goldina
  • Remy Loumbrozo
  • Goldina & Loumbrozo
  • Nadya Gordon
  • Steven Gordon
  • Bradford Gowen
  • Maribeth Gowen
  • Maribeth and Bradford Gowen
  • Polina Grigoryeva
  • Yulia Yurchenko
  • Piano Duo Vis-à-vis
  • Andreas Groethuysen
  • Yaara Tal
  • Duo Tal & Groethuysen
  • Roberto Guerra
  • Margherita Malagoli
  • Margherita Malagoli and Roberto Guerra
  • Thomas Hecht
  • Sandra Shapiro
  • Thomas Hecht and Sandra Shapiro
  • Ákos Hernádi
  • Károly Mocsári
  • Hernádi-Mocsári Piano DuoRecorded works by Bartók, including a duo-piano arrangement of The Miraculous Mandarin.
  • Cara Hesse
  • Laura Pauna
  • Norman Horowitz
  • Melvin Stecher
  • Stecher and Horowitz Piano Duo
  • 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.
  • Richard Humburger
  • Valentin Humburger
  • Piano Duo Humburger
  • Amparo Iturbi
  • José Iturbi
  • Christian Ivaldi
  • Noël Lee
  • Michael Jamanis
  • Frances Veri
  • Frances Veri and Michael Jamanis
  • Dorothy Jonas
  • Joshua Pierce
  • Geneviève Joy
  • Jacqueline Robin
  • Jacqueline Robin and Genevieve Joy
  • Alfred Kanwischer
  • Heidi Kanwischer
  • Heidi and Alfred Kanwischer
  • Stephanie Kapsetaki
  • Marianna Kapsetaki
  • Kapsetaki duoThe Greek/British twins are concert pianists and scientists.