"A piano duo of the highest
professional standard."
- Novik & Kharajanyan
Piano duo, Riga, Latvia 

"...imagination and verve..."
- Milton & Peggy Salkind
Piano duo, San Francisco

"The pianists loved their music, loved playing, and breathed together so that phrasing often seemed to be the impulse of a
single artist."
- Dan Koslov 
The Advocate News, 
Fort Bragg, California 

An American and Australian team based in San Francisco, The Angelo Piano Duo brings an eclectic mixture of musical styles to the concert stage.  With a repertoire that encompasses the richness of the Classical and Romantic styles, the Angelo Duo’s programs offer the elegance of Mozart and Clementi, the charm of Schubert and Dvorak, and the passion of Brahms and Rachmaninoff.  Equally at ease with composers of the 20th Century, these performers are seriously committed to the discovery of contemporary works for two pianos and one piano four-hands.  Programs feature well-known twentieth century composers and several living American, Australian, and Russian composers.

In addition to extensive appearances in the Western United States, the Angelo Piano Duo has performed in Australia, England, Italy, Russia and the Baltic States.  The Angelo Duo has made four successful concert tours to Russia and other Eastern European countries, including performances at both the Second and the Fourth International Piano Duo Festivals in Novosibirsk, Russia, the Fifth International Easter Festival of Classical Music and the Northern Flowers International Festival in St. Petersburg, and the Third and Fourth International Piano Duo Festival in Siauliai, Lithuania.  The duo's 1999 tour to Eastern Europe was sponsored by an NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) / USIA (U. S. Information Agency) grant from The Fund For U. S. Artists At International Festivals.

Recent Bay Area appearances include the Performances at Six Concert Series and Old First Concerts as well as several performances on the Noontime Concert Series at Old St. Mary's Church and a world premiere on the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Faculty Artists’ Series of a new work for two pianos written for them by San Francisco Composer, David Garner.

The Angelo Piano Duo has been selected by the California Arts Council to be included in its Directory of Touring Artists.

Alumni of The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Catherine and Anthony Angelo began their partnership at The Music and Arts Institute in San Francisco, where they studied with Ross McKee.  The team was developed and refined at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the direction of Peggy Salkind, of the distinguished piano duo, Milton and Peggy Salkind. 

The Angelo Duo has recorded two Cds: Brahms By The Bridge on Arkay Records, En Blanc et Noir  (In Black and White) on the Con Molto Classics label.  The latter features works for two pianos and one piano four-hands by Debussy, Grainger/Gershwin, and California composers David Garner and Bruce Cameron Munson.  The Angelo Piano duo has been a featured guest artist on “West Coast Weekend” on KQED-FM, San Francisco, and performances have been broadcast on Radio Riga, Latvia; Novosibirsk Radio and Television, Siberia, Russia;  Public Educational Television, Thailand; and the Australian Broadcasting Commission.  The Angelo Duo also performs and records with the Bridge Sextet, a vocal quartet and piano duo ensemble.  The Bridge Sextet's CD, Brahms by the Bridge features both sets of Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes.
 

Order The Angelo Duo CD, En Blanc et Noir.