Gasser was born in
Sheffield, in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1972 to Austrian and Scottish parents. He studied with John Humphreys at the
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and with Frank Wibaut at the
Royal Academy of Music, and is a fellow of both institutions. Later he also studied with
Alfred Brendel and
Peter Donohoe. Gasser plays large-scale standard repertoire piano works, in particular the
Viennese Classics (
Mozart,
Beethoven and
Schubert) and
Grieg,
Mendelssohn,
Busoni, and
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'', 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,
Constant Lambert,
Benjamin Britten,
Henri Pousseur,
Henry Cowell,
Toru Takemitsu,
George Crumb,
James MacMillan, Alistair Zaldua,
Michael Tippett,
John Webb,
James Dillon, Phillip Whilby,
Richard Barrett,
Cat Hope,
Aldo Clementi, Mike Vaughan,
John Cage,
Luigi Dallapiccola,
John Adams,
Mark-Anthony Turnage,
Olivier Messiaen, 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 workers who died in the
September 11 attacks, and most recently at the Utzon Room,
Sydney Opera House (2012) to launch Yamaha's CFX Concert Grand Piano in Australia. 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. Since 21 October 2009 Gasser has been an exclusive Yamaha Artist. From 2011 – 2013 Gasser was a staff member of the Keyboard Faculty of the
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in
Perth, Western Australia where he also achieved the award of PhD. From 2013 to 2015 Gasser was CEO and
Artistic Director of the
Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts in Brisbane, Queensland. He currently lives in Melbourne. ==Masterclasses==