Lucas (left) and Arthur Jussen (right) in 2019, 260px
Lucas Jussen (born 27 February 1993) and Arthur Jussen (born 28 September 1996) are a Dutch
piano duo
According to the ''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', there are two kinds of piano duet: "those for two players at one instrument, and those in which each of the two pianists has an instrument to themself." In American usage the former is ...
. They are brothers who have been performing in public since early childhood, often together as a piano duo. They come from a musical family: their mother Christianne van Gelder teaches the flute, while their father Paul Jussen is a
timpanist in the Dutch
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hilversum and a percussionist in the Ensemble Da Capo. The brothers were students of piano teacher
. They lived and studied with
Maria João Pires and have played with pianists Ricardo Castro and
Lang Lang.
On 24 November 2006, at the ages of ten and thirteen, they played the
Piano Concerto No. 10 (Mozart)
It is not known when Mozart completed his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 365/316a, but research by Alan Tyson shows that cadenzas for the first and third movements are written in his and his father's handwriting on a t ...
at
Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic under
Jaap van Zweden. On 30 November 2009, they performed the
Concerto for Two Pianos (Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc's ''Concerto pour deux pianos'' (Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra) in D minor, FP 61, was composed over the period of three months in the summer of 1932. It is often described as the climax of Poulenc's early period. The comp ...
with the same orchestra under
Michael Schønwandt. The Jussen brothers signed a recording contract with the
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft on 12 March 2010 and have recorded both the Mozart and Poulenc concertos, as well as other duo and solo works. After two years of studying with
Menahem Pressler in the United States since October 2013, Lucas continued his education with
Dmitri Bashkirov at the
Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. He is also
Artist in Residence of the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. Arthur studied at
Conservatory of Amsterdam under Jan Wijn.
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1993 births
1996 births
Living people
Classical piano duos
Dutch musical duos
Dutch classical pianists
People from Hilversum
21st-century classical pianists
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