# 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 |
| Saar Ahuvia Stephanie Kai-Win Ho | Duo: Stephanie & Saar | |
| Millette Alexander Frank Daykin | Alexander and Daykin | |
| Arthur Ancelle Ludmila Berlinskaya | Duo Berlinskaya-Ancelle | |
| Vera Appleton Michael Field | Appleton and Field | Alan Hovhaness wrote his Symphony No. 45, Op. 342 (1954) for them, but they never played it. |
| Veronika Aptekar-Ainagulov Svetlana Aptekar-Ainagulov | NikaSveta (Svetlana & Veronika Aptekar-Ainagulov) | Russian: Светлана и Вероника Аптекарь-Айнагуловы. |
| 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 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'. |
| Clara Becker Marie Becker | Clara and Marie Becker | They have been the dedicatees of several compositions among them works written by German composers Birgitta Lutz and Mathias Christian Kosel and are currently collaborating on commissions with the Greek composer Andreas Foivos Apostolou as well as the award winning composer Gonzalo Grau. |
| 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 (recorded in France, REM) |
| 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. |
| 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 Carmen Picard | Duo Caron | Artists dedicated mainly to their own transcriptions or arrangements of masterful orchestral works such as Italian Symphony by F.-B. Mendelssohn, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks by Richard Strauss, etc. Recordings and numerous world premieres including original arrangements by Sir Paul McCartney |
| Robert Casadesus Gaby Casadesus | | |
| Abram Chasins Constance Keene | seen in either order | |
| Angela Cheng Alvin Chow | | |
| 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. They have recorded the piano duet version of Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor (arr. Chopin and Carl Mikuli) |
| Mark Clinton Nicole Narboni | Clinton/Narboni Duo | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 & Dimitrov | Made 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 | Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir | |
| Monika Egri Attila Pertis | Duo Egri and Pertis | |
| Irina Elkina Julia Elkina | | |
| 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. |
| 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 & Pohl | European premiere of J.Adams "Hallelujah junction" (2000) |
| Sarah Gibson Thomas Kotcheff | HOCKET | Contemporary music piano duo |
| Rhondda Gillespie Robert Weatherburn | |
| 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 Duo | Recorded 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 | José & Ámparo Iturbi | |
| Christian Ivaldi Noël Lee | Ivaldi and 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 | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Alfons Kontarsky Aloys Kontarsky | seen in either order | They have given first performances of works by Luciano Berio, Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Luis de Pablo and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. |
| Irina Kotlyar Gregory Shifrin | Kotlyar-Shifrin Piano Duo | |
| Mina Kusumoto Laurie Kono Merchant | Koshka Piano Duo | |
| Aleksei Kuznetsoff Valentina Lisitsa | Valentina Lisista and Alexei Kuznetsoff | |
| Katia Labèque Marielle Labèque | Labèque Sisters | |
| 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. |
| Giorgi Latso Anna Fedorova-Latso | The Latsos Piano Duo | Individually, Anna Fedorova-Latso from Russia, and Giorgi Latso from Tbilisi, Georgia, are piano virtuosos on the international classical music scene, who have performed in recitals, chamber ensembles, and have performed with leading orchestras worldwide. They just released their first recording with Vienna Acoustics, works by Mozart and Schubert. |
| 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. |
| Vassili Lobanov Sviatoslav Richter | Sviatoslav Richter and Vassili Lobanov | |
| Sonja Lončar Andrija Pavlović | LP Piano Duo | |
| Beatrice Long Christine Long | Christine and Beatrice Long | |
| James Longford Lindy Tennent-Brown | Longford-Brown Piano Duo | |
| Jack Lowe Arthur Austin Whittemore | Whittemore and Lowe | |
| Pierre Luboshutz Genia Nemenoff | Luboshutz and Nemenoff | |
| Brenda Lucas John Ogdon | | |
| Radu Lupu Murray Perahia | seen in either order | |
| Witold Lutosławski Andrzej Panufnik | | |
| Igor Machlak Olga Kharitonova | Igor and Olga Machlak | |
| Margarita Malinova Olga Malinova | | |
| Ralph Markham Kenneth Broadway | Ralph Markham & Kenneth Broadway | Recorded the Concerto For Two Pianos by Vaughan Williams for Virgin Classics, and Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens for Telarc Records. Toured Europe and North America with the Philharmonia Hungarica in performances of concertos by Francis Poulenc and Mozart at Lincoln Centre and the Kennedy Centre. They made their Town Hall debut in March 1988. |
| Richard Markham David Nettle | Nettle & Markham | In 1985 they gave the UK premiere of Bruch's Double Concerto. They were the first duo to give concert performances of The Planets in Holst's own two-piano version. |
| Jeffrey Marlowe Ronald Marlowe | Marlowe Brothers | |
| Guy Meier Lee Pattison | Meier & Pattison | In 1924 they gave the American premiere of Leo Sowerby's Ballade for Two Pianos and Orchestra (King Estmere) with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates in New York. Sowerby also made a 2-piano version of the first of his two Paul Whiteman Orchestra commissions, Synconata, for the duo, as well as his Graingeresque Fisherman's Tune. |
| 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 | |
| Anne-Marie Mot Monique Mot | | |
| Begonia Uriarte Mrongovius Karl-Hermann Mrongovius | | |
| 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. Christina and Michelle Naughton’s first album was released on the label ORFEO in 2012. |
| Harry Neal Allison Nelson | Nelson and Neal | |
| Max Olding Pamela Page | seen in either order | |
| Ferhan Önder Ferzan Önder | Ferhan and Ferzan Önder | Turkish-Austrian pianists, born October 2, 1965. Moved to Austria in 1985 to study in Vienna. |
| 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 | Identical twins (born 1951, Istanbul), made their debut at the age of six. Recorded the four hand reduction of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring for Deutsche Grammophon in 1980. |
| Mary Peppin Geraldine Peppin | Mary and Geraldine Peppin | They were identical twins, born 30 December 1912 in Somerset. Premieres included Stanley Bate's Three Pieces for Two Pianos, Arnold Cooke's Sonata for Two Pianos, Peter Racine Fricker's Concertante for Three Pianos (with additional pianist Kyla Greenbaum), Constant Lambert's Trois Pieces Negres, Humphrey Searle's Gold Coast Customs and Bernard Stevens' Introduction and Allegro. |
| Maxim Puryzhinskiy Irina Silivanova | Irina and Maxim | |
| Janine Reding Henry Piette | Reding–Piette Piano Duo | |
| Imre Rohmann András Schiff | Schiff and Rohmann | |
| Peter Rostal Paul Schaefer | Rostal and Schaefer | |
| 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 | | |
| Naomi Sanchez Stephen Varney | Pas de Duo | |
| Dinis Schemann Susanne Schemann | Susanne and Dinis Schemann | |
| 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. |
| Sivan Silver Gil Garburg | Silver-Garburg Piano Duo | |
| Sontraud Speidel Evelinde Trenkner | Trenkner-Speidel Piano Duo | They have made world premiere CD recordings of Max Reger's arrangements of Bach's works. |
| Hans-Peter Stenzl Volker Stenzl | Stenzl Piano Duo | |
| Valeria Szervánszky Ronald Cavaye | | |
| Shan-shan Sun Per Tengstrand | Tengstrand-Sun Piano Duo | |
| 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. |
| Anne-Louise Turgeon Edward Turgeon | Duo Turgeon | |
| Vlada Vassilieva Anatoly Zatin | Duo Petrof | |
| Stanislava Varshavski Diana Shapiro | Piano Duo Varshavski and Shapiro | |
| Susan Wang Sarah Wang | | |
| Steven Worbey Kevin Farrell | Worbey & Farrell Piano Duo | |
| Irina Zheleznov Maxim Zheleznov | Duo Zheleznov | |
| Elizabeth Bergmann Marcel Bergmann | Bergmann Duo | |