 The two pianists met at the Juilliard School in 1979, and quickly formed a professional duo dedicated to the large body of original works for piano four-hands from Tomkins to the 20th century.A fortuitous rediscovery of an early 20th-century two-piano transcription of Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Art of Fugue" became one of their principal artistic expressions as well, performed in Paris's Salle Gaveau in 1986, and recorded on Connoisseur Society in 1994.They are one of the first duos to record this arrangement, which won one of the "Best New Recordings" in the January 1996 issue of American Record Guide.