O Duo percussion duo

Fellowship Winner 2008

Oliver Cox
Owen Gunnell

Formed in 2000, O Duo's first commercial CD was released in 2007 on the Sony BMG label to critical acclaim, The Daily Telegraph nominating it as CD of the Week. Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox were both scholars at the Royal College of Music (RCM), graduating in 2003 with First Class Honours. In 2004 they were awarded the first Junior Fellowship to be given to a percussion duo at the RCM and in 2005 were selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust in London (YCAT). O Duo has performed concertos with the BBC Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, worked at Abbey Road and Sony studios on television and film scores and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and BBC TV. In 2003 and 2004 the Duo won ‘Best Music Act of the Fringe' at the Edinburgh Festival and in 2006 was shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society ‘young artist' award. Over the last year the Duo has given critically acclaimed recitals at Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, recorded for Channel 4 TV and BBC Radio 2 and given concerts in Paris, Madrid, Switzerland, Bulgaria and the Harare Festival in Zimbabwe. They have continued to give concerts at major venues and festivals throughout the UK. Engagements this season include a return visit to Wigmore Hall and concerts at Bridgewater Hall, the Deal, Stratford and Lake District Summer Music Festivals. Further afield the Duo give concerts in Germany and appear at Mexico City Festival with guitarist Morgan Szymanski.