Mark Isaacs Trio with Briana Cowlishaw

Foundry616 welcomes back pianist/composer Mark Isaacs with his long-term collaborators and tight rhythm section, Brett Hirst, bass and Tim Firth, drums, while Sydney's singer on the rise Briana Cowlishaw joins the band to add her stunning voice to the already exciting repertoire. 

The band performed the Cup Eve Concert at the Wangaratta International Jazz Festival and this is their first performance since then.

Mark recently co-produced a film for television of the premiere of his first symphony by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, a work commissioned by former media executive Kim Williams AM. The program had its World Television Premiere in October on Foxtel’s cable TV arts channel STUDIO.

Performing a mixture of original songs taken from the 2013 Resurgence band album Duende which featured Briana, as well as the band's own interpretations of standards and covers, the two one hour sets will be bursting with colour and melody.

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a splendid musical mind” jazz and classical composer and pianist Mark Isaacs has recorded and performed with some of the biggest names in international jazz yet he also writes symphonies and concertos and works as a classical pianist.

His Resurgence band has been widely acclaimed and tours internationally and currently Mark presents his music in a more intimate trio setting along with special guest and new Resurgence crew member the scintillating young Australian vocalist Briana Cowlishaw. 
 
“Wonderfully integrated, thoughtful and intelligent…..providing some of the best on the cutting edge of accessible jazz” ALL ABOUT JAZZ (USA)