Formed in 2011, the piano duo of Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown is now established as an ensemble of rare distinction, vitality and originality. Performances in London include St John’s Smith Square, Fairfield Hall, Blackheath Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Markson’s Bösendorfer series and Clapham Omnibus. The duo has been featured in the Lower Machen and Stow-in-the-Wold Festivals, at Manchester Art Gallery, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Chetham’s School of Music and many other venues. Abroad they have appeared regularly in France including their Paris debut in November 2018, and twice at the Madeira PianoFest. They have given three highly acclaimed concerts at the Southbank Purcell Room, in 2014, 2015 and 2019. Their first recording was a CD of the music of Julian’s father Maurice Jacobson for the Naxos/British Music Society label. In 2017 they released their first CD on the SOMM label. The CD received outstanding reviews. They have also continually sought out new and neglected repertoire. At the Purcell Room they gave the first performance of the piano duet version of Gary Carpenter’s After Braque in 2014 and of Nathan Williamson’s Instinctive Ritual in 2015. In 2016, in Manchester Art Gallery, the duo premiered Edward Lambert’s Aspects of Work. Recently they have premiered Julian’s virtuoso concert transcriptions of two Gershwin masterpieces, the Second Rhapsody and An American in Paris, both published by Schott/Bardic Edition, with many subsequent performances.