Two decades of wit, experimentation and hard work can best describe O Duo's output. Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell got together in 2000 while studying at the Royal College of Music. Both artistes were scholars at The Royal College of Music.

In 2002 they made their Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut with their show, 'Bongo Fury', which they played over 25 times to sell-out crowds and critical acclaim. Bongo Fury, a fast and furious composition actually presents new scopes and aural dimensions in percussion. It merges folk influences, music concrete, and other found sounds in a tune that literally leaves the audience breathless.  Bongo Fury, by and large, also helped them win The Best Music Act at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival twice.

Bongo Fury laid the path for more performances, notably two more appearances at the Fringe, as well as new compositions and collaborations. Highlights include playing at Hyde Park for the Last Night of the Proms, countless chamber music and concerto performances, especially at The Barbican, London as well as concert appearances around the world notably at Al Bustan, Harare and Mexico City Festivals and in Paris, Madrid, Lucerne, Zug, and Seinajoki, as well as tours to Germany and Bulgaria.  They have also collaborated with the Royal Scottish Orchestra, The BBC Philharmonic, Sinfonia ViVA and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Experimental as they are, O Duo have also got the knack to transmit their art to newcomers or even those who are interested but may know nothing whatsoever about music. They have been commissioned to do many works for adults and children around the world thanks to their virtuosic performances.  They have given workshops and concerts in schools and special needs centres throughout the UK, including at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow and the Usher Hall, Edinburgh with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of Scottish Opera and special guests including Nicola Benedetti. O Duo's repertoire spans more than 300 years and perhaps one can put them alongside Erik Ewazen, Mike Burritt, Jisu Jung and Gene Kohsinsky among other vibraphone and marimba experimentalists. Yet, O Duo have honed a style of their own with an invigorating mix of popular classics and accessible contemporary music.  

One can indeed evaluate their passion, hard work, as well as their flair and experimentation through their studio album recordings. Their first recording goes back to 2007 on the Sony BMG label in 2007 and made a great impact on the UK music scene. Many were simply struck by the way O Duo managed to give different but dignified versions of classical arrangements of keyboard works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin and others. Soon afterwards,  O Duo worked at Abbey Road and Sony studios on television and film scores and broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC Television.

ln 2015, O Duo released Searching. This was an even bolder affair featuring interpretation of works by Bach and Philip Glass among other talents. Geoff Norris of The Daily Telegraph described this work as "exhilirating". Furthermore, Norris stated that  "Searching", the title number, "is written by the duo itself and deploys a wider array of tuned and untuned percussion in a glistening constellation of timbres, at times hushed and haunting, at others athletically spry in a way that might benefit from actually watching the performers in action."

Indeed, O Duo's music really speaks for itself. Their performance at The Three Palaces Festival on Wednesday 7th November, will be essentially encapsulating their efforts in classical, jazz and experimentation when they will feature works by Soler, Granados, Lygeti, Paul Desmond, and of course their own standard classic Bongo Fury, of course!