Gavin Brady was born in 1978 in Dundee, a small town on the east-coast of Scotland.  His early musical studies were with the trumpet then, at the age of 13, he took up the piano.  In 1996 he was awarded a place in the piano class at the Royal Scottish  Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow where he studied for six years,  gaining a Bachelor of Music Honours degree, a Post-Graduate Diploma and a Master of Music degree.

Gavin won first prizes in all RSAMD competitions including the Claude Debussy Competition, the John Ireland Competition, the Governors’ Chamber Music Competition and the Dunbar-Gerber Chamber Music Competition, and was finacially supported with  scholarships from the Sir James Caird Trust, the Robertson Trust, the Dundee Educational Trust and the RSAMD Trust.

During his time at the RSAMD Gavin was fortunate to study and have  master-classes with the entire piano faculty, including Jean Hutcheson, Fali Pavri, John Thwaites, Philip Jenkins, Jack Keany and  Phillip Silver.  He was also chosen for solo master-classes with  distinguished visiting artists including Charles Rosen, John Lill, Murray McLachlan, Dmitri Alexeev, Artur Pizarro and Boris Berman, and chamber music master-classes with the Allegri Quartet, Malcolm Martineau, Martino Tirimo, the Florestan Trio and the Gould Trio.

Gavin has given Solo and Chamber Music recitals all over the United Kingdom, Holland, Italy and Germany.  Recent performances have taken him to venues in London, Halifax, Cheltenham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hanover, Munich and Cologne.  In 2002 (supported by the British Council) he toured Cuba with the Theophilus Piano Trio.

From very early in his musical education Gavin developed a deep passion for chamber music, and in 2002 took the decision to move to Frankfurt, Germany to study chamber music intensively at the  Frankfurt Academy of Music and the Performing Arts with Rainer Hoffmann, Angelika Merkle, Bernard Wetz, Hubert Buchberger and  Catherine Vickers.

In October 2005 Gavin formed Trio Altiora.  In their relatively short time together they won prizes in number of international competitions, including First Prize at the Frankfurt Sparkasse Chamber Music Competition.   In Autumn 2007 Gavin travelled to Holland with his trio, where they had been invited to take part in the Zeist International Music Days, where he was mentored by Menahem Pressler from the Beaux Arts Trio, and by members of the Vermeer and Jerusalem Quartets.

Gavin Brady enjoys a varied musical life and as well as playing over  50 concerts each year currently holds a teaching position at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and the Performing Arts.  He is promoted by Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now Frankfurt am Main & Scotland and performs regularly to a wide variety of audiences.

During the summer months of 2008 Gavin was invited to perfom as soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt, under the baton of Jens Tröster.  One of the ‘open air’ concerts took place in Hanau, near Frankfurt for an audience of around 15,000 people.