Biography
The Biography below was translated from German to English using the Google Translator app. You can read it in it's original text by following the artist's website link provided at the end.
Martin Gasselsberger was born on February 6th. Born in Gaspoltshofen / Upper Austria in 1980.
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From the age of 5 he received classical piano lessons, at the age of 15 his career as a jazz pianist began.
In 1999 he enrolled in "IGP Keyboard Instruments Popular Music" with Herbert Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, graduating (Magister degree) in 2007 with distinction.
The lively artistic activity as a pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader led to encounters with Wolfgang Puschnig, Jarek Smietana, Maria Joao, Klaus Dickbauer, Tony Momrelle, Doug McLeod, LA Jones, Memo Gonzales, Rob Rio, Lynn Drury, Roberto Luti, among others , Vince Weber, Hans Theesink, Bumi Fian, Lorenz Raab, Lungau Big Band, Thomas Gansch, Katharina Stemberger, Frank Hoffmann, Maxi Blaha, Oliver Mally, Ernst Grissemann, Christoph Grissemann and many others
Martin Gasselsberger has recorded over 50 CD productions, 6 CDs and one DVD are available from his trio "mg3" (Martin Gasselsberger Trio) alone with long-time companions Roland Kramer and Gerald Endstrasser.
Many of these recordings were broadcast in Canada, Japan, Australia and most European countries.
In 2008, together with Petra Linecker, Martin Gasselsberger received the “artist in residence” grant from the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce and was voted Austria’s jazz musician of the year by the music magazine “Concerto” in 2009 and 2010. These awards are mainly due to the artistic work of his trio "mg3", which has been working with Frank Hoffmann, among others, since 2008.
The year 2012 brought the first musical encounter with Tim Collins, an exceptional vibraphonist from New York. This resulted in many concerts in the quartet, and in 2016 the live CD “Out & Across” was recorded.
Since 2016, in addition to many other projects (Frank Hoffmann, mg3, "Sir" Oliver Mally, Petra Linecker...), there has been a very intensive collaboration with the saxophonist Klaus Dickbauer, both artistically and pedagogically. In 2017 Klaus Dickbauer and Martin Gasselsberger developed the music playalong app "CHORDMILL" (on IOS and Android), in 2018 the recording "Duck Talk" by the trio "Triple Ay" (Dickbauer/Gasselsberger/Rainer) was released.
In 2019 the CD "DOMINO" was released by the trio "TripleStockPot" (Martin Gasselsberger (piano), Christian Wendt (bass) and Christian Lettner, the album "Warm Embrace" in a duo with Petra Linecker and the Christmas album "Schöne Bescherung" in a duo with Frank Hoffman.
Website: Martin Gasselsberger
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