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Mark Gasser was born in Sheffield in 1972. He studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire with John Humphreys (where he graduated with the highest marks in the institutes history) and the Royal Academy of Music with Frank Wibaut, where he graduated once again with Distinction. He was recently made an honorary life member of the Conservatoire.

A critically acclaimed pianist he has an especially wide repertoire from Bach and Purcell to contemporary music including over 50 concerti.

He has performed / broadcast on four continents in many of the world leading concert venues. He played alongside Peter Donohoe, Dmitri Alexeev, Boris Berezovsky and Nikolai Demidenko at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in a 60th Anniversary Gala tribute to John Ogden. He performed Ronald Stevenson's epic Passacaglia on DSCH, which, with duration of around 80 minutes, is the longest piece of continuous music written for any instrument in history. He played the Passacaglia along with works by Easterbrook and Bingham at the Wigmore Hall (Broadcast BBC), South Melbourne Town Hall (broadcast ABC) and Carnegie Hall (New York) where it received standing ovations. The latter was a benefit concert for those affected by September 11th shortly after the tragedy as a special event of the UK-in-NY Festival. As a chamber musician he has toured with the virtuoso cellist Mats Lidstrom. Recent performances include concerts / broadcasts as diverse as Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus and Bach's Goldberg Variations.  He is currently recording 6 solo CD's over the next few months.

With a wide press following he has been described by Paul Driver (Sunday Times) as having "a staggering technical command", Chris Morley (Birmingham Post) describes him as "Scintillating and poetic...totally at one with his instrument". Richard Dain also recently wrote of him "I have no doubt that we are hearing one of the great pianists of the next century"