Lucille Chung

Husband and wife team Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, called one of the most “appealing and impressive piano duos of our time,” will be the featured artists in the January concert of the Steinway Society -- The Bay Area at Hammer Theatre in San Jose. Established artists in their own rights, Bax and Chung first met at Japan’s Hamamatsu Competition, where Bax says, “I think we fell in love with each other’s playing!” Since then, they have performed in major festivals and concert halls around the world, as well as recorded three CDs, featuring works of Saint-Saens, Stravinsky and Ligeti for piano four hands and two pianos. Besides their individual solo careers and their newest duo collaboration as parents of four-year-old Mila, they are also co-artistic directors of the Joaquin Achúcarro Foundation in Dallas, created to cultivate the legacy of the Basque pianist and to support young pianists’ careers. This concert will feature four-hand works of Schubert, Debussy and Piazzolla (arranged by Bax and Chung).