Variations Sérieuses Op 54 by Felix Mendelssohn performed (live) by Mark Gasser 2009 Video

Variations Serieuses Op 54 by Felix Mendelssohn performed live by Mark Gasser 2009.

Mark Gasser (born 1972 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire)[1] is a British concert pianist.

Gasser went to the Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music and is a Fellow of both. He studied under John Humphreys, Frank Wibaut, Alfred Brendel and Peter Donohoe.[2][3]
He plays both large scale standard piano literature as well as broadcasting and recording on five continents. He is recognized as having a dramatic affinity for the Viennese Classics (Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in particular) as well as Edvard Grieg [1]]], Ferruccio Busoni & Rachmaninoff and, perhaps, most notably, the French Impressionists Debussy and Ravel [2]]]Ravel]] . His repertoire is vast, ranging from the Goldberg Variations of Johann Sebastian Bach to the (complete) Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus[4] of Olivier Messiaen. As a chamber musician he has performed in all the major Chamber Music Festivals across the USA, Europe and Australia[5][6] and has toured with his friend the virtuoso cellist Mats Lidström. He has also worked with many contemporary popular artists such as Pink, Jarvis Cocker and Björk. His concerto repertoire alone includes over 70 different works from Bach to the present day. Gasser is also closely associated with many contemporary composers, and has premiered or recorded many compositions by living and 20th century composers, including: Alfred Schnittke, Ross Edwards (composer),[7] Constant Lambert, Benjamin Britten, Henry Cowell, Toru Takemitsu, George Crumb,[8] 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,[9] Luigi Nono, Edgard Varèse, Judith Bingham, Pierre Boulez, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti and Ronald Stevenson. Of the latter he performed Stevenson's monumental Passacaglia on DSCH[10][11] at Carnegie Hall[12][13] as a charity concert shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center to raise money for the rescue workers families lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Gasser was a founder member of the Thallein Ensemble and has performed in many of the world's leading concert halls, music festivals and has been a soloist with the leading Symphony Orchestras worldwide. He was "Bösendorfer Artist of the Year" In 2002 and has, in recent years, performed a great deal on the Australian made Stuart and Sons pianos. [14][15]
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He is currently Head of Keyboard Studies at the Central Queensland University in Australia and divides his time between teaching and touring.
As a pedagogue, Gasser has taught / given masterclasses at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music AU, Christ's Hospital UK, Newcastle University AU, Hale School AU, Birmingham Conservatoire UK, Juilliard School USA, University of Oxford UK, Australian National Academy of Music, AU Purcell School UK, Royal Holloway University UK, The King's School, Canterbury UK, Trinity College of Music UK, University of Cambridge UK, Darmstadt DE, Central Queensland University,AU Newcastle Grammar School AU, City University of New York USA and the Conservatoire de Paris FR.

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gallipoli2009: Please comment.

PeterOrtag: OMG! AMAZING. 10 / 10

9dvorak: Exquisite, both Mark's piano and your video! Thanks so much!

shela2: Awesome playing, live this year, of the highest possible standard of pianism and British born ....Thankyou for posting this

laughinghorse63: Lovely piece, beautifully performed, and very nice visuals! :)

paulprocopolis: Very fine musicianship and technique, complemented by sympathetic recorded sound and production. The complete package - great stuff!

cziffra1980: Marvellous stuff! Any chance of uploading the Vingt Regards?

Doppleganger123: This is just great Mark - Such an exciting performance!

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