Name | Mark Gasser |
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Background | non_performing_personnel |
Born | July 06, 1972 Sheffield, UK |
Instrument | Piano |
Genre | Baroque, Classical, Romantic 20th century |
Occupation | Pianist, classical musician |
Mark Gasser (; born 1972 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is a British concert pianist.
Gasser plays large-scale standard piano. He is recognised for his affinity with the Viennese Classics (Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in particular) as well as Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn, Ferruccio Busoni & Rachmaninoff and the French Impressionists Debussy and Ravel. His repertoire ranges from Bach's Goldberg Variations to Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus. As a chamber musician he has performed in all the major chamber music festivals in the US, Europe and Australia and has toured with the virtuoso cellist Mats Lidström.
His concerto repertoire includes more than 70 works ranging from Bach to music from the present day. Gasser collaborates with contemporary composers and has premiered and recorded compositions by 20th-century composers such as Alfred Schnittke, Ross Edwards (composer), Constant Lambert, Benjamin Britten, Henri Pousseur, Henry Cowell, Toru Takemitsu, George Crumb, James McMillan, Alistair Zaldua, Michael Tippet, John Webb, James Dillon, Phillip Whilby, Richard Barrett, Aldo Clementi, Mike Vaughan, John Cage, Luigi Dallapiccola, John Adams, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Olivier Messiaen, Luigi Nono, Edgard Varèse, Judith Bingham, Pierre Boulez, Joël-François Durand, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti and Ronald Stevenson. Gasser has also worked with contemporary artists such as Pink, Jarvis Cocker and Björk.
Gasser performed Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH at Carnegie Hall as a charity concert shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City to raise money for the families of rescue worker's who died in the September 11, 2001 attack.
Gasser was a founding member of the Thallein Ensemble and has performed in some of the world's major concert halls and music festivals and has been a soloist with a number of symphony orchestras. He was named "Bösendorfer Artist of the Year" In 2002. As of 21 October 2009 Gasser has signed a three year contract to be the sole classical Yamaha Artist in Australia.
As of Feb 2011, Gasser is a staff member of the Keyboard Faculty of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Western Australia.
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