The Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation is a Classical Music organization based in Miami, Florida.
Throughout the years, its mission was to introduce, to educate and to invite the widest possible audience to the world of music, with special emphasis on four-hand chamber music for piano. Since 1987, the foundation has been the leader for the renaissance of duo pianism.

The Dranoff International Two Piano Competition

The Dranoff International Two Piano Competition is a biennial two piano and piano four-hand competition. It is opened to artists up to 33 years of age. At the time of its creation, it was the first such competition in world. Some of the most successful piano duos in the world are former Dranoff International Two Piano Competition winners

Dranoff International Two Piano Competition winners

The following is a list the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition Winners. The competition was founded in 1987 by the Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation.20081st Prize Winners - Silivanova-Puryzhinskiy...

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The Alvin Perlman Commission

The Alvin Perlman Commission is an undertaking by the foundation to expand the two piano repertoire. Each competition year, a major composer is commissioned to composer a piece. In addition to this piece being forever added to the performance cannon, it also serves as a required work for the competition’s finals. Some of the most significant commissioned pieces are Two Pianos by Morton Gould

Morton Gould

Morton Gould was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His first composition was published at age six...

, Variations Concertantes by Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...

, Recuerdos by William Bolcom

William Bolcom

William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...

, Taschyag by Paul Schoenfield

Paul Schoenfield

Paul Schoenfield is a classical composer. He is known for combining popular, folk, and classical music forms.Schoenfield was born in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. He began to take piano lessons at the age of six, and wrote his first composition a year later. Among his teachers were Julius Chajes,...

, Six Variations for Pianos by Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...

, Charoscuro by John Corgliano, Bachanale by Rovert Xavier Rodriguez and Lillibulero Variationsby Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.

Piano Slam

Piano Slam is a community outreach and engagement project with the purpose of introducing classical music to underprivileged school children in the Miami area. A number of public schools are visited by classical artists, pop artists and poets, while the children are encouraged to compose poetry relating to a certain musical work. A panel then awards prizes for the best works, and the students also have the opportunity to premiere them in front of a live audience at the Adrienne Arscht Center for the Arts in Miami, Florida.