The Latsos Piano Duo in the context of Medellín Metropolitan Theatre


The Latsos Piano Duo in the context of Medellín Metropolitan Theatre

⭐ Core Definition: The Latsos Piano Duo

The Latsos is an American classical piano duo formed by the husband-wife team of Giorgi Latso and Anna Latso. Although they initially pursued solo careers, they teamed up as duo-pianists in 2013 and conducted annual international tours, four-hands piano recitals and concertos for two pianos and orchestra in Europe, Americas and Asia.Duo formed in the city of Vienna in 2013 is best known for their interpretations of Franz Schubert piano pieces for Four-hands, and also known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes according to a press release from The Guardian, British daily newspaper.

The Latsos Duo has resided in Austria, from 2013-2019, where Giorgi had joined the piano faculty of the Vienna Prayner Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts as professor of piano and at the same time he was a guest professor at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. Subsequently, since 2020 they have made their homes in Los Angeles.

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The Latsos Piano Duo in the context of Four hand piano

Piano four hands (French: À quatre mains, German: Zu vier Händen, Vierhändig, Italian: a quattro mani) is a type of piano duet in which the two players play a piece arranged for four hands on the same piano simultaneously. A duet with the two players playing separate pianos is generally referred to simply as a piano duet or piano duo.

Music written for piano four hands is usually printed so that left-hand pages contain only the part for the pianist sitting on the left, while right-hand pages contain only the part for the pianist sitting on the right. The upper part (right) is called primo while the lower part (left) is called secondo.

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The Latsos Piano Duo in the context of Piano duet

According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, there are two kinds of piano duet: "[pieces of music] for two players at one instrument, and those in which each of the two pianists has an instrument to themselves." In American English usage, the former is often referred to as a "piece for four hands", or "piano four hands". Grove notes that the one-piano duet has a larger repertory, but has come to be regarded as a modest, domestic form of music-making by comparison with "the more glamorous two-piano duet". The two-piano form is also referred to as a piano duo, although this term also refers to a set of two piano players who play together regularly (thus, duos play duets).

The piano duet came to popularity in the second half of the 18th century.

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