Briana Cowlishaw & Gavin Ahean
Briana Cowlishaw (Vocals) and Gavin Ahearn (Piano) are two of Australia’s leading jazz musicians. They have been recording and performing together for 10 years on the national and international stage. Briana Cowlishaw is an award-winning singer who was recently nominated for the National Jazz Awards Finals (2020). Gavin Ahearn has toured and recorded in Australia, USA and Europe and released internationally distributed albums.
The Duo has co-founded several original jazz projects which they tour and record. With a shared love for composition and improvisation, their duo performances feature original tunes from Briana and Gavin, delivered with a sense of luring sensitivity and thrilling spontaneity.
Videos
“Manhattan Bound” by Briana Cowlishaw
“Tender” by Gavin Ahearn. Lyrics by Briana Cowlishaw
Fjord.
‘Fjord’ by Briana Cowlishaw and Gavin Ahearn, 2016
(Review by Eastside Radio)
Inspired by an enduring friendship and created amongst the breathtaking hillsides of Norway, the album explores the intricate musical relationship between voice and piano. With a lead up time of five years to being finally recorded in October of 2014, the slow-buring creative process was a culmination of the artists understanding of each other’s approach to their instruments. The album is bare and raw to its core, leaving no room for error or to hide amongst the duo, a concept that would frighten many an artist however given their familiarity with one another’s abilities, the pair gladly embrace the challenge. The duo were also able to effortlessly present a work without ego or tension given that each instrument could easily, and has often been the case in the past, have fronted a band scenario.