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Mark Gasser (born 6 July 1972) is a British concert pianist. ==Career== Gasser was born in Sheffield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1972. He studied with John Humphreys at the 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''. As a chamber musician he has performed in all the major chamber music festivals in the United States, Europe and Australia〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.abc.net.au/classic/daily/stories/s1816168.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = AFCM official website )〕 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, 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = The sister City program of the City of New York, INC ''Official Website'' )〕〔''Gasser Hits High Note at Carnegie Hall'', article / Interview Telegraph Newspaper ARTS News) 26 October 2001.〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Sydney Morning Herald )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Piano Australia PTY )〕 Since 21 October 2009 Gasser has been an exclusive Yamaha Artist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =CSYO ) 〕 From 2011 – 1213 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.〔(Gasser, M., "Ronald Stevenson, Composer-Pianist : An Exegetical Critique from a Pianistic Perspective" (Edith Cowan University Press, Western Australia, 2013) )〕 From 2013–2015 Gasser was CEO and Artistic Director of the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts in Brisbane, Queensland. He is currently Campus Manager for the Australian Institute of Music in Melbourne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Gasser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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