Since their South Bank debut for the Park Lane Group in 2005, David Eaton and James Young have pursued a career unique amongst established piano duos of today, performing as an opera orchestra and as actor-musicians as well as giving performances of duo and duet music.
They have performed at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St. Martin-in-the-fields, St. James' Piccadilly, the Warehouse and live on BBC Radio 3, and have made transcriptions of no less than 10 operas and operettas for performance with Charles Court Opera, including Cosi fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Der Schauspieldirektor, Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, and a huge raft of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Their transcription of Stravinsky's piano roll recording of The Rite of Spring was premiered at the Wigmore Hall in 2007 to great acclaim, and in 2008 the duo made their concerto debut playing Poulenc and Saint-Saens with the Amistad Symphony Orchestra at the Royal College of Music.
Since then they have been invited to perform Zemlinsky's epic trancription of Mahler's Sixth Symphony at a private event for Sir Norman Rosenthal and Lady Valeri Solti, and will return to the Wigmore Hall in 2010 for a programme featuring rare works of Schubert for one piano, four hands
