The longfordbrown piano duo was formed in 2002 when James Longford and Lindy Tennent-Brown met 
as Legal & General Junior Fellows at the Royal College of Music in London. They are laureates of several major international competitions – Third Prize in the 14th International Schubert Competition in the Czech Republic, Second Prize and the Rachmaninov Prize in the 2007 IBLA Grand Prize in Sicily – and they were semi-finalists in the prestigious Dranoff International Two Piano Competition in March 2008.
The duo has recently returned from a scholarship-supported Creative Development Residency at The Banff Centre in Canada, where they studied with Jerome Lowenthal (Head of Piano at The Julliard School) and Lambert Orkis (long-term duo partner of Anne-Sophie Mutter and the late Mstislav Rostropovich) and gave several acclaimed concerts. Closer to home, the duo works with pianists Martin Roscoe, Margaret Fingerhut and John Blakely, and with conductor Gerry Cornelius.
The longfordbrown piano duo has performed throughout the UK, Italy, Germany and Denmark, most recently giving critically-acclaimed performances of Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos with the Hertford Symphony Orchestra and Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals with EMFEB Chamber Orchestra in London. The duo enjoys its collaborations with other musicians – they have performed Ein Deutsches Requiem in Brahms’ own version for piano duet, soloists and choir, and the cantata Saint Nicolas by Britten with the East London Chorus, among others.
The longfordbrown piano duo has quickly established a reputation for its innovative programming and thrilling performances. James and Lindy are equally comfortable in piano-duet or two-piano repertory and take delight in compiling programmes which draw upon a wide variety of source material, from the great classical works through to music of the present day. Future plans include performances of the two-piano concertos by Mozart and Poulenc in the UK and New Zealand.
