The art of piano duet

An Online Steinway Teacher & Educational Partner (STEP) Workshop

27^th May 2024 | 10.00 hrs.
Live-streamed via Zoom platform.

Steinway Thailand will be presenting "The Art Of Piano Duet: Necessity of Integrating Piano Duet in Piano Teaching", a live-streamed piano workshop designed for piano teachers and pedagogues. Led by Giorgi Latso and Anna Fedorova-Latso, the Steinway Duo known as The Latsos, this online workshop will delve into the rich history of piano duet and its integration into education, covering invaluable insights into the technical intricacies of duet performance.

workshop highlights

• Historical background of piano duet. 

• Famous piano-duo performers through the centuries.

• Technical aspects of duet playing including seating, position of the arms, fingering, pedaling, dynamic, balance, turning pages. 

about the latsos

Formed in 2013 by award-winning international concert pianists Giorgi Latso and his wife Anna Fedorova-Latso, the Latsos Duo is a favorite among many concert organizers and promoters and has been praised for its “brilliance and stylistic insight” by Los Angeles Weekly. International Piano Magazine calls the duet “Alluring, Thrilling, Inspirational" and hails their Mozart as “Impeccable by any standard, highlighted with exquisite trills, dazzling runs and precise Mozartean dynamics” .

The duo performs at renowned concert halls across Europe, America, Western Asia and the Middle East. Through commissioning numerous compositions and collaboration with other artistic genres, Latsos has expanded the boundaries of piano-duo presentation. The Latsos have recorded a number of unusual and largely unknown treasures from the duo-piano repertoire, including all the Schubert duets and duos, and also arranged two-piano and piano four-hands transcriptions from American movie scores by composers such as John Williams, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and John Philip Sousa. They were hailed as “one of the finest transcribers of our time” in the European press. The Latsos are often guests on radios such as K-USC, Classic FM, Sunday Live, NDR Kultur, America Matters, KCKQ-AM 1180, WAMU 88.5 Washington's NPR station, KKNX Classic Hits, Adagio FM, and many more.

Giorgi and Anna combine performance and teaching. As music educators, they get regularly invited to present collegiate masterclasses and lectures at a number of universities in Europe, Russia, Asia, as well as across the United States and regularly invited to perform at prestigious music halls and scholarly conferences worldwide as well as served as judges at various international, national and regional piano competitions. The duo also supports the mission of charities by organizing and performing benefit concerts each year. They often offer concert performances for non-profit organizations and institutions that serve underprivileged communities, children with special needs, hospital patients, and the elderly.

Latso's 4 hand arrangement "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was published in 2023 and is protected by the National Library of Congress Copyright Office in Washington D.C. Since August 2023 they have been officially designated and conferred as Steinway Ensemble Artist by Steinway & Sons, New York City.

*The workshop is reserved for piano teachers and pedagogues only.