Their first important teacher was Jean Wilder, a pupil of Tobias Matthay, then on the faculty of Wells College in Aurora, New York.

They were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in their junior year, an honor extended to the top 1% of their class of 1000, and received BA degrees in 1959, summa cum laude, with philosophical orations, and were awarded the Seymour Prize for the highest numerical average of a graduating student in Berkeley College, their residential college.

Its success led to recitals on the Continent, especially in the Netherlands, where they received enthusiastic critical acclaim, and to a contract to tour in the United States under the aegis of impresario Sol Hurok.

Frankly, they are an amazing duo, possessed of extraordinarily magnificent pianism, precise ensemble, an acute sense of rhythm and timing, and a fullness of tone which is quite glorious in the Suite."

Many years later, Busoni announced an upcoming performance in London with a colleague, Egon Petri, but died before the concert could take place.

On March 21, 1993, Richard and John were an important part of the annual Schubertiade, Schubert and the Piano, at the 92nd St. Y in New York, during which they focused on Schubert's Piano Duets, described by the Schubertiade's program director, Joseph Horowitz, as "arguably, the most comprehensively varied body of music ever created by a single composer in a single genre," works which are "rarely performed, or recorded."

After their extensive illustrated traversal, the twins gave complete performances of the three masterpieces from 1828, Schubert's final year, Allegro (Lebensstürme), Fantasy in F minor and Grand Rondo in A major.

Their program comprised Howard Ferguson's Partita for Two Pianos, Schubert's Variations in A-flat on an Original Theme and the Finale of the Beethoven-Liszt 9th Symphony.

Inc., they teamed up with Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons in a performance of Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, with the famous actors reciting the Ogden Nash poems.

One of the most rewarding experiences of their career, indeed of their lives, was conceiving of and directing for thirteen years, from 2001 to 2014, the Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series project.

This philanthropic program arranged piano recitals by American pianists throughout the United States under the sponsorship of the Adams Family Foundation.

When the end of the program was announced, Richard and John received some of their most cherished tributes from many of the pianists who participated, including Simone Dinnerstein, Jon Nakamatsu, Joseph Kalichstein, Steven Mayer, Ursula Oppens, Soyeon Kate Lee, Frederic Chiu, Ann Schein and Jeanne Stark-Iochmans.