The multi-instrumentalist and composer Valentin Gasser received his first saxophone lessons from his father and attended the music school in Bolzano with Hans Tutzer until 2010. From 2010 to 2018, he studied jazz saxophone with Prof Thomas Huber and then jazz composition & arrangement with Prof Andy Middleton at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität (later the University of Music and Art).
In addition to the saxophone, he also plays the piano, guitar, flute, clarinet and trumpet.
Valentin Gasser has been living in Bolzano again since summer 2018, teaching saxophone and piano, playing, composing and arranging for various projects (jazz, classical and symphonic wind orchestra).
In summer 2020, he won the Arge Alp international composition competition. With his Fanfare No. 1, he prevailed against 43 competitors.