LP Duo is one of the most successful chamber ensembles in this part of Europe. The ensemble was founded in 2004 when pianists Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović premiered the integral version of Olivier Messiaen’s “Visions de l’Amen” within the Belgrade Summer Festival (BELEF 04) at Sava Center.

Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović completed their undergraduate  and postgraduate studies (specialized in piano duo) from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, and continued their education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock (Germany), completing postgraduate and PhD studies in chamber music and piano duo with honor, in the classes of Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzel. These studies represent the highest level of education for musicians in Europe, and Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović are one of only six duos in the world with this sort of diploma.

In 2009 they received the City of Belgrade Award for youth creativity and the Award of Serbian Music Artists Association (UMUS) for best young artists. In 2010 they were awarded Bruno Frey Stiftung Landesakademie Prize of Baden-Württemberg Province in Germany.

After several qualification stages, together with more than 100 duos from all around the world, LP Duo entered the final stage of the competition (eight best piano duos on the Globe) at the biggest world competition in Miami, Florida, in March 2008. On that occasion, they gave five recitals at Miami University’s Clarke Recital Hall.

They won First and Special Prize at the Eleventh International Competition for Contemporary Chamber Music in Krakow (Poland), Third Prize at the Chopin Roma competition of piano duos in 2005 (two pianos category), Second Prize (the same category) and Third Prize (four-hands category) at the same competition in 2006. After receiving Special Prize in Bialistok in 2008, they performed on a tour in several Polish cities in June 2009.

LP Duo has performed in numerous Serbian cities, as well as in Hungary, Slovenia, San Marino, Poland, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA, and at the festivals: BELEF, BEMUS, Chinch – Composers in the First Person, Belgrade/Ljubljana Express, Museum Night in Budapest, Kragujevac October Festival – OKTOH, International Composers’ Review, Minimal Art Festival in Culemborg (Netherlands), Piano Duo Festival in Byalistok (Poland), TodaysArt Festival in the Hague (Netherlands), Festival of Documentary Film “7 Magnificent”…

They performed on a special humanitarian concert for UNICEF in Germany.

Duo appeared with the Belgrade Strings within the concert series “Dialogues”, performing the Fete, for two pianos, percussion and strings, by Croatian composer Ivo Josipović. This piece has appeared on CD with music of Ivana Stefanović and Ivo Josipović, released at the end of 2009 in cooperation pf the Croatian Composers’ Association and Jugokoncert Belgrade.

They have also collaborated with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Serbian Radio Television.

Among their numerous public appearances the concert at the Philharmonics Hall in Krakow (Poland) especially stands out, when LP Duo appeared in front of more than 2000 listeners and with a direct broadcast on the Polish National Television.

They had five concerts at the Miami University (Florida), announced on NBC and in the Miami Herald, several concerts in the Belgrade Philharmonics Hall, a concert in Sava Center Hall and a performance at BELEF – Belgrade Summer Festival, in 2007, on a boat on the Sava and Danube rivers… Duo had a very successful concert in the Slovenian Philharmonics Hall recorded by Ljubljana Radio & TV, including first performances of pieces written especially for them by Slovenian composers. In the Netherlands, they held several notable performances with pieces written by Serbian composers…

They have been recording for Belgrade and Novi Sad Radio & TV, as well as for radio and TV companies in San Marino, Poland, Slovenia, the USA…

The LP Duo repertoire is broad and includes classical, contemporary, experimental and popular compositions for two pianos, piano four-hands, two pianos and percussion instruments, two pianos and orchestra, three pianos, four pianos…

So far and only in Belgrade they have premiered more than 20 contemporary pieces by Serbian and foreign composers.

Serbian composers Milimir Drašković, Božidar Obradinović and Vladimir Pejković have dedicated compositions to LP Piano Duo.

LP Duo is actively working on improvement of the classical music presentation and its popularization. Many of their concerts have a unique visual identity (special light designs or video works) and sometimes performances are realized out of standard concert venues. They have a special cooperation with the stage director Nikola Zavišić.

They currently bring to an end recording session in Germany for an album comprising pieces by Danish composer Kim Helveg.