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He moved to Paris with his roommate, Michael Kariton, to perform a piano duo repertory together, which they did before the end of 1924.

In 1925 the duo received an offer from the New York theatrical producer Morris Gest and went to the United States where they performed together on the Keith / Albee and Orpheum vaudeville circuits in which they accompanied a ballet troupe run by the Austrian ballerina Albertina Rasch.

Tiomkin and Rasch's professional relationship evolved into a personal one, and they married in 1927.