Two Piano Journey has raised $2.2 million for charities and nonprofits since mother-and-son duo Michelle Chen Kuo and Chris Kuo started performing together. Michelle is a piano prodigy and teacher who gave annual concerts at Carnegie Hall for 20+ years while raising her kids; Chris spent grueling hours practicing while running trading desks at investment banks (where he met Theater Founder Yina Moore!) to help his mother reach her dream of touring the world.

Michelle and Chris performed a new program to launch Season 2024 for the Adams Theater at the DiMenna Center in New York City. They explored the versatility of the piano, performing solo, duet, and duo pieces for the first time together in one concert, with work from romantic composers like Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, Chopin, Lutoslawski, and Arensky.

“The Adams Theater has been a light for the community,” Chris said. “It’s a beautiful cultural and economic symbiosis between artists from all over the world. We are also frankly just proud of our dear friend Yina, who continues to prove that the dreams of an immigrant AAPI mother of two are boundless.”