Aleksey and Hyung-ki met at the age of twelve at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England, where they became friends over a portion of fish and chips. In 2004, they followed in the footsteps of luminaries Victor Borge and Dudley Moore and began creating their groundbreaking shows. Since then, many of the world's most renowned musicians have asked to be part of their musical mayhem, including Emanuel Axe, Joshua Bell, Ray Chen, Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, Viktoria Mullova, Vasily Petrenko, Julian Rachlin and Yuja Wang. The two have also teamed up with John Malkovich on the CD album "You Just Have to Laugh" and Igudesman's show "The Music Critic", with whom they still tour regularly, as well as with former James Bond, Sir Roger Moore, with whom the duo has collaborated several times for UNICEF.
As a soloist, Aleksey Igudesman has collaborated with Oscar-winning Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer, and Hyung-ki Joo was commissioned by Billy Joel, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to arrange Joel's solo piano compositions and record them on a CD that reached #1 on the Billboard charts.
In addition to their own productions, IGUDESMAN & JOO have appeared in numerous films, including the mockumentary, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Classical Music, Pianomania, Breaking Beethoven and the award-winning Noseland.