Igudesman & Joo wish all their fans all over the world a peaceful and joyful Christmas and Happy Holidays. And if you live in NY State, you can get the perfect present this year. Get some tickets for you and your beloved for the I&J performance at Feb 2, at Tilles Center in Green­vale, New York! For tickets CLICK HERE. For more infos, please CLICK HERE. To watch I&J’s newest video “The Perfect Christmas Present, CLICK HERE.

Igudesman & Joo are nuts for Macedonia! (Or is it Macadamia?) If you come to “BIG Nightmare Music”  on the 6th of december in Skopje, Mace­do­nia together with the Mace­don­ian Phil­har­monic Orchestra, you will experience Igudesman & Joo conducting themselves! For more info CLICK HERE. For tickets call +389 2 3238 182 or send an e-mail to marketing@filharmonija.org.mk

IGUDESMAN & JOO are per­form­ing at the 2012 “C’est pas clas­sique” fes­ti­val in the beau­ti­ful city of Nice, France at 2:30 and at 8:30 pm. on firday the 30th of November 2012 at the Nice Acropolis, 1 Esplanade Kennedy. It will be the French premiere of IGUDESMAN & JOO; “BIG Night­mare Music” together with the orches­tra Cannes Provence Alpes Côte-d’Azur!under the baton of Maestro Philippe Bender. For further details CLICK HERE. FREE ENTRANCE!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO What do a Gorilla and a Bunny have in common? Find out now and get tickets for Igudesman & Joo in London, Cadogan Hall and New York, Carnegie Hall:
London, Cadogan Hall, 9th of March: https://www.cadoganhall.com/showpage.php?pid=1677
New York, Carnegie Hall, 17th of April: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2012/4/17/0800/PM/Igudesman-and-Joo-A-Little-Nightmare-Music/

If you expect to see Igudesman & Joo: “A Little Nightmare Music” in Cadogan Hall in London on the 9. of March, its high time to book those tickets, as they are selling out fast. For tickets CLICK HERE. There are also wild rumors of Igudesman & Joo giving their Carnegie Hall debut in April… which may actually be true. More News coming soon. Ah yes, and of course Chicago Symphony Series performance with special guesst Emanuel Ax on the 26. of May. For tickets CLICK HERE. And last, but certainly not least, Igudesman & Joo performing at the Hollywood Bowl together with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Bramwell Tovey on the 6. of September. For tickets CLICK HERE.

Yes, I&J are touring once mores and will be performing near you! Well, if you live near one of the places where they are touring, that is.
And if not, why not take a little trip to London to see them in Cadogan Hall on the 9. of March for their U.K. debut, Warsaw on the 23. of March for the Poland debut or visit them in Chicago, where they will perform with special guests Emanuel Ax on the 26th of May as part of the Chicago Symphony Series? And for the ultimate “nightmare”, try Hollywood Bowl on the 6th of September, where I&J will be joined by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a few numbers. Many performances and many contests coming up and very soon the debut of I&Js new show… but that is a story for another day… Click HERE for all the tour dates.

We started off 2012 with setting a new World Record. And we loved it so much we’re giving ourselves a little vacation. While we’re gone, please send the following link to all your friends, so when we get back we can see whether you liked it or not: The Igudesman & Joo UNICEF World Record of the Most Dancing Violinists

We could not have done this without the help of 300 Spartans 100 Violinists, some of whom travelled great distances to be with us, and all of whom gave up their New Year’s Eve to make this happen. And below are the names of all the mighty Dancing Violinists.

2012 will be a very special year for us- our UK and London debut, the world premiere of our new show, “And Now Mozart”, and some other projects which we can’t quite reveal yet as we have to keep some surprises up our sleeves for the next 12 months!

THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE VIOLINISTS WHO DANCED THEIR HEARTS TO THE WAY OF THE IGUDESMAN & JOO.

For a NEW X-mas video of Igudesman & Joo CLICK HERE. Still looking for a christmas present? Why not buy tickets to an Igudesman & Joo concert – for example their London debut in Cadogan Hall on the 9th of march 2012. Buy tickets here: https://esro.cadoganhall.com/peo/chi2007/integrate.php?page=event&peocode=1726

On behalf of Igudesman and Joo, and the entire team, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. May your bellies be full and hearts warm as you share these festive days with loved ones.
We would also like to wish UNICEF Austria a Happy 50th Birthday. Congratulations on your many accomplishments and thank your for all of your efforts in protecting the children of the world.
Igudesman and Joo will be dedicating the “World Record for the most Dancing Violinists” to UNICEF-Austria, in celebration of their 50th Anniversary.
The duo is inviting all violinists on December 31st 2011 to ring in the new year and celebrate UNICEF Austria’s 50th anniversary, by playing and dancing on the stage of Großer Saal, Wiener Konzerthaus. ‘Conducted’ by legendary Bond actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Sir Roger Moore, supported by Julian Rachlin and more!
Apply here: www.igudesmanandjoo.com/worldrecord
Like our Page: https://www.facebook.com/IgudesmanJooOfficial
Fol­low us on Twit­ter: www.twitter.com/igudesmanandjoo

Excerpts of the review by Mark Swed for the L.A. Times: Bernard Haitink and Gustavo Dudamel are big fans. Gidon Kremer is a sometime co-conspirator. Emanuel Ax has chased Joo around the piano and shoved him off the bench. The team turns the severe Russian violinist Viktoria Mullova into “Viktoria’s Secret.” I was hoping, to no avail, Saturday for a surprise appearance by John Malkovich; a YouTube clip of his strait-laced music critic send-up with the pair is side-splitting. Since one clip is worth a thousand words, describing the Igudesman & Joo humor in detail would be to deflate its brilliance. For the put-upon Igudesman, think Jack Benny and Jascha Heifetz rolled into one. For the zany Joo, try an unholy Chico Marx, Vladimir Horowitz and Jerry Lewis mash-up. Through it all, Igudesman & Joo personify the idea that with skill and devotion and a good nature and prefect comic timing, we can do more than merely survive, but enjoy ourselves. The violinist and cellist, it should be mentioned, are music education advocates. They preceded Saturday’s show with master classes at UCLA and the Santa Monica Academy of Music. They must come back, and next time let it be big time. Hello, Hollywood Bowl. We need them maybe more than we know. CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE

Exciting stuff – I&J finish their California mini-tour with performances in Cupertino, in the Bay Area, Flint Center for the Performing Arts on the 21st of october at 8 pm. FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE. The final date is on the 23rd of october at 2 pm in Grass Valley in the Center for the Arts. FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE. Catch them if you can!