Guitarist, born in 1983, was privately educated by his parents starting in the second grade of primary school. During this time, the family traveled extensively, including spending a year in India. From the age of 8 to 14, he received classical guitar lessons from his father, Felix Gisler, who graduated from the Conservatory in Winterthur.

At the age of 23, he completed the pedagogy program at the Lucerne School of Music, Faculty III, where he studied for three years under Kurt Rosenwinkel. He is a co-founder of the band NoReduce, which features the American drummer Nasheet Waits.

In 2016, he founded the Dave Gisler Trio with bassist Raffaele Bossard and drummer Lionel Friedli. Their debut album “Rabbits on the Run” was released in 2018 on Intakt Records. It marked the beginning of a musical departure that both deepened the trio’s cohesion and led to its expansion into a quartet or quintet.

Since 2019, the trio has repeatedly toured with the US trumpeter jaimie branch. In 2020, the live album “Zurich Concert” (Intakt Records) was released, recorded at the unerhört! Festival with jaimie branch as a guest musician. In March 2022, the studio album “See You Out There” followed, featuring jaimie branch and US saxophonist David Murray. In 2023, the trio went on tour with US saxophonist Tony Malaby as a guest.

As a sideman as well as with his trio, Gisler has toured in Japan, Russia, the USA, and throughout Europe. In addition to leading his own band, he is currently active with Christoph Irniger’s Pilgrim, D.r.O.G.E, Franziska Bruecker & Dave Gisler, This is Pan, Florian Egli’s Weird Beard, and Meta Zero.

He was a permanent member of the Swiss Jazz Orchestra, the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, and the Zurich Jazz Orchestra, where he performed with jazz artists such as Jojo Mayer, Dave Douglas, and Ben van Gelder. In 2020, he performed at the Taktlos Festival as a substitute in Mark Feldman’s “Maniac” project.

In 2024, he was appointed professor of guitar at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).

He is a recipient of the New York Atelier scholarship from the Heinrich Danioth Foundation, as well as a scholarship from the Dr. med. Leslie B. Hadfy Foundation, awarded to a talented student of the Lucerne School of Music. In 2016, he received the Moods-Aïda Alliman Advancement Award and the work year grant from the Art and Culture Foundation of Uri