Palmas Piano Duo is a brother-and-sister Duo.

Since the beginning of their career Palmas Piano Duo distinguished themselves for their unusual piano duet repertory and  drew attention of   press and critics for their “excellent musicianship in terms of dynamics and phrasing” besides the “uniqueness of the musical  material” recorded in their Cds (B. Ro.). The Palmas Piano Duo have received excellent rewiews by national and international press and  were pointed out as  “Want List material” by Fanfare Magazine.

The Duo won many first prizes in national and international competitions: Honorary Mention at the 12th International Web Concert Hall Competition, USA (2011), Diploma d'Onore at TIM (Tournoi International de Musique ) in Paris (2012).

The Duo was guested several times by Rai Radio 3  (Italy) (La stanza della musica, Piazza Verdi, etc..) live programme that guests prestigious artists of world-wide reputation; RSI (Switzerland) has dedicated to Palmas Piano Duo several Radio programmes as well (Arabesque).

They performed throughout Italy at “Il suono di Liszt a Villa d'Este”- Tivoli, Museum of Theatre alla Scala - Milan, ”MiTo Fringe-Milan, Premio Musica Roma, Spazio Novecento-Cremona, Festival Musicale della Riforma-Turin, A.GI.MUS- Padova, Auditorium  in Velletri, Piano City Festival in Milan, etc.

Their discography includes 5 CDs. 3 for the Italian Label “La Bottega Discantica”. Their first cd, with the world première recording of Dvorák's Dumky, in the composer's original version for piano duet and the Quintet op. 1 by Ernö Dohnányi, was released in 2008. On the occasion of the bicentenary of Robert Schumann (2010), the Duo recorded the Quartett op. 47 and Quintet op.44, in the version for piano duet by Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann.  The Third CD (2022) was dedicated to Franz Schubert including Fantasie in F min, Variations on an Original Theme D813 and Lieder transcriptions. Palmas Piano Duo has contributed to the world première recording of the -well tempered clavier- by Bach in the four-hand version of Théodore Dubois (2022 and 2024).

Their recordings were broadcast by RSI (Switzerland), Radio Classica and Rai Radio 3 (Italy), Radio 4 (The Netherlands) and Radio Vaticana.

After graduating in Torino (Cristina) and Brescia (Luca, piano and mathematics) they trained as solos and in chamber music under guidance of distinguished musicians (Scuola Superiore del Trio di Trieste, Piano Academy Romano Romanini in Brescia under Sergio Marengoni, Mario Conter, master classes held by Mario Delli Ponti, Oxana Yablonskaya, Boris Petrushansky, Bruno Canino etc.), It was only after attending the International Courses in San Marino under Pier Narciso Masi and the Accademia del Teatro Cinghio under Trio di Parma that they decided to found their piano duo, realizing that this ensemble best represented them as musicians.

Cristina, deep interested in the art song accompaniment, after receiving her first training at the Vocal Music Academy Hugo Wolf in Acquasparta and the Vocal Music Academy in Casalpusterlengo, studied the Lied repertoire under Charles Spencer in Vienna. She partecipated in master classes held by Hans Peter Blockwitz, Norman Shetler and Irwin Gage and complemented her education attending the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien.