MZ DUO
About
MZ Duo has been captivating audiences across the UK and Europe with their unique and eclectic approach to chamber music, exploring radical re-imaginings of everything from folk songs to symphonic classical works, commissioning some of today’s most exciting composers, and incorporating improvisation to bring these worlds together.
Spanish/Basque accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade and Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi met in London in 2019 as recent graduates of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and discovered a common desire to approach performance in a way that reflected their personalities, interests, and cultures.
Their debut album, ContraDANCE, was released on Delphian Records in February 2026; in addition to coverage from BBC Radio 3 (Record Review and In Tune), Radio Clásica (Spain) and CBC’s In Concert (Canada - where it was Record of the Week), it has received acclaim from Gramophone Magazine and Melómano magazine.
Recent appearances include Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh Fringe, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Barnes Music Festival, Newbury Spring Festival, Music@Malling, Musiquem Lleida, Buxton International Festival, and the Rosengart Museum (Luzern). They have appeared on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and Radio Clásica’s Radar Clásico, and have been residents at Music at Brel and Ferrandou Musique (France).
The duo is dedicated to the generation of new repertoire for their instrumentation, and have collaborated with composers including Robin Haigh, Aileen Sweeney, Roxanna Albayati, Annabel Kershaw, Brian Elias, Benjamin Oliver, Michael Hughes, and Alex Paxton. New commissions and projects for the duo have been supported by the Marchus Trust, City Music Foundation, the RPS Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund, the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust, and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
“...brain-bending technical expertise.”
BBC Music Magazine
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