The Gerwig & Gonzalez piano duo is one of the leading and most interesting duos of the new generation.

The duo has performed in numerous concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and North America. They have been invited to play at the “Mozartwoche Festival” in Salzburg, the “Klavier Sommer Festival” at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, the “Redlands Bowl Summer Festival” in California, and the “En Blanco y Negro” International Festival at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in México City, among others.

The Gerwig & González Duo is the winner of the 9th International “Concours Grieg” pianoduo competition in Oslo, Norway in 2008, as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of Edvard Grieg’s works awarded by the Oslo Grieg Society & Norwegian Academy of Music.

In 2001 the pianists Christine Gerwig and Efraín González Ruano (from Germany and México, respectively) met each other at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, where both were studying for their bachelor’s degrees in piano solo with Professor Alfons Kontarsky, who inspired and encouraged them to start playing together and introduced them to literature for pianoduo. Under Kontarsky’s mentorship, the couple embarked on a journey toward a greater musical understanding through the performance of pianoduo literature.

In conjunction with their master’s studies for piano solo at the Mozarteum University with Alfons Kontarsky and later with Rolf Plagge, Gerwig & González also specialized in pianoduo literature with both professors, as well as with the Duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Grothuysen.

Having come from very different cultural backgrounds, the pianist couple continues to enrich each other in their understanding and feeling of music and creating new ideas and projects for audiences in different countries with socially difficult backgrounds.

Gerwig & González regularly teach master classes and workshops for children in public schools and universities throughout Mexico. They also have offered special concerts for children in Germany and the USA.