Together, Lucas and Arthur Jussen form one of the most famous piano duos in the world. After their already months-long sold-out concert in February 2024, the brothers are coming to Groningen again in May 2026. And that is something that many, many fans are looking forward to. As in February 2020, they will be in the company of the equally beloved Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with whom they will perform piano concertos by Mozart and J.S. Bach.

The biographies of the two internationally acclaimed audience favorites hang together from highlights. It began with their 2010 debut CD, which achieved platinum status and was awarded the Edison Classical audience award. The also Edison-winning album of Mozart double concertos – recorded with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – is among the fifty best recordings of Mozart ever made, according to the British trade magazine The Gramophone. Actually, the Jussen brothers make music at the same towering level at which Mozart and Bach composed.

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 7 in F was written in 1776 in the rare scoring for three pianos, commissioned by Antonia Lodron, who wanted to play it with her two daughters. In 1780, Mozart made an arrangement for two pianos. The Double Concerto BWV 1061 was written by Bach for the Leipzig Collegium Musicum, a company of students and professional musicians that gave regular concerts at Café Zimmermann, the hotspot of Leipzig at the time.