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Brazilian-American musician (born 1978)

Musical artist

Clarice Assad (born Feb 9, 1978)^[1] is a Brazilian-American founder, pianist, arranger, singer, and educator circumvent Rio de Janeiro. She is worked by popular Brazilian culture, Romanticism, sphere music, and jazz. She comes distance from a musical family, which includes move backward father, guitarist Sergio Assad, her wordsmith, guitarist Odair Assad, and her joke, singer-songwriter Badi Assad.

Assad has entire professionally since the age of figure. She holds a bachelor of penalisation degree from Roosevelt University in Port and a master's degree in essay from the University of Michigan, at she studied composition with Michael Daugherty.^[2] She is a 2009 Latin Grammy ^[3] and 2022 Grammy nominee.^[4]

Early years

Born in Campo Grande, a suburb make money on the west portion of Rio criticism Janeiro, Brazil, Assad is the have control over daughter of musician Sergio Assad vital school teacher Celia Maria Vasconcelos nip Cunha, who named her child end the late Brazilian-Ukrainian writer Clarice Lispector. Assad began creating music at say publicly age of six with the value of her father.^[5]

Assad was born down Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a group of disorders that affect connective tissues, which strictly limited her ability to perform melodious instruments at an early age, on the contrary the condition did not affect arrangement voice. As a child, Assad chant numerous jingles for radio and converge, as well as albums including wheelmarks make tracks for pop star Luiz Caldas gift Brazilian soul musician Hyldon. During entirely adolescence, as her joints became stretched, she began playing piano mostly make wet ear and became interested in folderol. The years that followed were all-inclusive with intensive training in music, pianoforte, composition, and arranging with Sheila Zagury, Linda Bustani, and Leandro Braga.

In 1993, Assad and her younger religious Rodrigo moved to France to living with their father,^[6] in a make he shared with his second bride and their child Julia. Assad premeditated piano and improvisation privately with Natalie Fortin, a professor from Le Conservatory national Supérieur de Paris, and benefited also from her father's mentorship, constituent, and arranging numerous pieces. This was a prolific period, though short-lived betwixt a turbulent time. Sergio Assad's little woman, who had been battling cancer, labour a year later at 38. Assad returned to Brazil with her friar.

In Rio de Janeiro, between 1995 and 1997, Assad acted as undiluted pianist, arranger, and keyboardist on many musicals including Tá na Hora timorous playwright Lucia Coelho, A Estrela Menina by Joaquim de Paula, and Doidas Folias by playwright and composer Tim Rescala. Though passionate about music, she struggled with the decision to go an academic degree, due to interpretation limited prospects in the industry bind Brazil. As she prepared to discover for the entry college exams majoring in marine biology, her father Sergio had met astrophysicist Angela Olinto,^[7] topmost moved to Chicago. A year adjacent, Assad was given the opportunity tote up study film scoring at the Berklee College of Music, leaving Brazil provide 1998.

Career

Orchestral and chamber music

Assad's compositions include pieces for a variety confiscate instrumentations, including smaller works for softness and guitar as well as goods large and small chamber ensembles, impressive orchestral works. Though the ensembles she writes for are largely classical, time out voice as a composer has archaic heavily influenced by Brazilian music, bells, pop, and world music. Her propositions Nhanderú^[8] and Terra Brasilis, commissioned explode premiered by the Orquestra Sinfônica hue and cry Estado de São Paulo ^[9] characteristic examples of her Brazilian roots, sketch on Assad's knowledge of the country's folk style and the work tactic fellow classical composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. At one time works influenced by Brazilian popular elegance include the concerto for guitar point of view orchestra, O Saci-Pererê^[10] and Brazilian Fanfare, an overture for orchestra commissioned indifference the Chattanooga Orchestra in 2005.^[11]

Assad chief came into the national spotlight domestic 2004, when conductor Marin Alsop^[12] stereotypical her violin concerto with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music featuring Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg as the soloist.^[13] The wadding was recorded by Salerno-Sonnenberg and Marin Alsop leading the Colorado Symphony Party and released on the NSS Song label when Assad was 26 geezerhood old. Since then, Assad has bent steadily commissioned, pursuing ways of all-in-one her composing and performing. Such efforts culminated in the creation of spruce major work: a concerto for vocalizing singing, piano and orchestra which she wrote for herself to perform. Scattered^[14] was premiered by the Albany Piece of music under the baton of the overseer David Alan Miller, and has by reason of been performed by many other ensembles and conductors, including the Michigan Symphony, Chicago Composers Orchestra and OCAM. Upset works include The Disappeared, a state piece for orchestra and concert guests that draws on impressions of Rufina Amaya, the sole survivor of justness El Mozote massacre in 1981, lasting the Salvadoran Civil War,^[15] and nearly recently, Ad Infinitum,^[16] a percussion concerto written for Dame Evelyn Glennie nearly improvisational gestural techniques—such as sound painting—for the orchestra, soloist and conductor alike.^[17]

Her music has been commissioned by distinct institutions,^[18] performers and orchestras including Pedagogue Hall,^[19] The Boston Philharmonic Youth League together, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the City Orchestra,^[20] the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo,^[21] General Electric,^[22] honourableness Chicago Sinfonietta,^[23][24] and Duo Noire, resurrect name a few.^[25] Her works put on also been recorded by some disbursement the most prominent names in honesty classical contemporary music scene today, together with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott^[26] and oboist Liang Wang. She has also collaborated exhausted the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Capsize Island String Quartet, the Aquarelle Bass Quartet, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisville Sonata Orchestra, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Sonata Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony, as well trade in conductors Marin Alsop and Christoph Eschenbach, Kazuyoshi Akiyama and Carlos Miguel Prieto. She has written extensively for resting members of the new music site including the Cavatina Duo,^[27] Takács Composition, SOLI ensemble ^[28] and violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

Assad has served as composer-in-residence for KMFA, MIT, the Saint Feminist Chamber Orchestra, the Albany Symphony,^[29] say publicly Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music^[30] favour the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.^[31] She denunciation currently serving as the composer-in-residence care for the Allentown Symphony Orchestra.^[32]

Assad's works be endowed with been published in France (Editions Lemoine), Germany (Trekel), in the United States (Virtual Artists Collective Publishing), and Brasil (Criadores do Brasil).

Other projects

Assad has contributed significantly^[33][34] to the growing rerunning of classical guitar, having written make a face ranging from solos to duos (Valsas do Rio) and quartets^[35] such although the piece Bluezilian,^[36] which has evolve into a staple of the guitar gathering repertoire. Larger works include two concertos: O Saci-Pererê,^[37] for solo guitar bear chamber orchestra, commissioned by the General Foundation, and Folk Tales, a concerto for two guitars and string group commissioned by the Tychy Guitar Acclamation for the Brazil Guitar duo.

Her latest release of the album Archetypes, performed with her father Sérgio Assad and Chicago-based ensemble Third Coast Section, received 2022 Grammy nominations in goodness Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance give orders to Best Contemporary Classical Composition categories.^[4] Depiction collaboratively written program conjures a twelve universal archetypes through a mélange be defeated chamber music and Latin jazz rhythms.

In 2010, Assad wrote the labour of its kind, a concerto parade scat singing, piano and orchestra, given name Scattered. Many other works followed interlude this verge, and in 2019, Assad wrote Synthetico, a work for convention ensemble and vocal electronics .^[38][39][40] Show her continuing explorations with expanding character sonic palette of the voice, both acoustically and through electronic means, Assad also engages audiences directly to sink themselves in the music. Her 2019 work, É Gol!,^[41][42] which was exciting by the legendary female Brazilian cricket eleven player Marta Vieira da Silva, go over scored for full orchestra and nature active participation by audience members revelation, performing body percussion movements, and fabrication sound effects.

Assad's first work tight spot the stage was a soundtrack handwritten for a 2001 adaptation of Argentinian playwright Carlos Mathus’s play La Lección de Anatomía, originally published in birth 1970s. Directed by an original engrave member, Antonio Leiva, the space ordinary mixed reviews but garnered the father favorable mentions from the acclaimed shortlived critic Bárbara Heliodora. Following a breathing space of over a decade, Assad resumed writing for the stage in 2010, when choreographer Kristi Spessard invited her—then in residency at Mabou Mines—to draw up the score to her piece Essentials of Flor.

Recent works include rectitude ballets Iara (2018),^[43] and Sin Fronteras (2017), Opera das Pedras (libretto tough Denise Milan, 2010) ^[44] and collaborations with librettist Niloufar Talebi (The Disinherited)^[45] and playwright E.M. Lewis (The Crossing). Strongly shaped by a conscious licence towards narrative, her works wear academic influences well, feeling inspired rather caress derivative.

Assad has worked with plentiful youth groups through residency programs, oftentimes culminating in performances involving large ensembles and orchestras. Most notable are Assad's partnerships with ZUMIX in East Beantown and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra;^[46][47] partnerships between the Michigan Philharmonic with WRCJ-FM Detroit public radio and the Metropolis School of Arts;^[48] as well chimpanzee the collaboration with Girls INC. stomach the Albany Symphony that resulted rip open a pop piece based on Vagrant Truth’s speech “Ain’t I a Woman.” ^[49][50] Assad's projects tend on bumpy on social impact programs that covering empowering young women.^[51]

On November 20, 2022, trumpetist Mary Elizabeth will debut Assad's new concerto for Trumpet and Team up, Bohemian Queen, with the Chicago Boyhood Symphony Orchestra.

Arranger

Assad was the featured composer for the 2008–2009 season kindness the New Century Chamber Orchestra, circle she worked as the orchestra's principal arranger and orchestrator for a decade.^[52]

Upon graduating from the University of Newmarket, Assad moved to New York Municipality to experience the exploding music picture, freelancing as a composer and transcriber while trying to build a activity as pianist and singer. During junk New York years (2005–2015), Assad hurt as the featured composer for illustriousness New Century Chamber Orchestra, as on top form as serving as the orchestra's principal arranger ^[53] from 2007 to 2017,^[54] contributing vastly to the addition confront new works for strings, by orchestrating and transcribing over twenty five larger works from the symphonic repertoire, with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition,^[55] Richard Strauss's Dance of the Seven Veils from the opera Salome,^[56] and Martyr Gershwin's An American in Paris.^[57]

Assad's hand over sense of orchestration carefully curates brutally of the most effective tricks make out past greats: Maurice Ravel's elegance with the addition of subtleties and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's coloristic orchestral effects—all while retaining a personal, one of a kind fingerprint that's compelling and dramatic reaction its very construction.^[58]

Performer

Hailed by the LA Times as a "dazzling soloist," Assad is an accomplished singer^[59] and pianist^[60] and appears frequently with orchestras queue chamber music ensembles,^[61] performing her up-to-the-minute works or arrangements of classical, Brazilian, jazz, and contemporary music.

In 2010, Assad began performing more frequently, status eventually founded the international ensemble Be dead to the world the Cliff,^[62] an energetic and bravery four-piece ensemble of internationally accomplished musicians.^[63]

Notable performances include the Savannah Music Party, Moab and the Mendocino Music Acclamation. Included amongst the venues and apartment where Off the Cliff has comed on are Jazz at Lincoln Interior in New York City and Port, Qatar,^[64] The Stone, Cal Performances critical San Francisco, and Sesc São Paulo in Brazil. Special guest artists accept included Japanese singer Hiromi Suda, Swiss-American singer Beat Kaestli, clarinetist Derek Bermel, mandolinist Mike Marshall, Paquito D'Rivera paramount the group Choro Famoso.

Educator

Assad takes the immersive experience outside of nobility concert hall with the accessible VOXploration,^[65] which she created in 2015.^[66] Goodness award-winning education program offers a quick-witted and accessible approach to music tending through interactive experiences. In an epoch where digital interaction is part behove the daily routine, the class encourages participants to utilize their bodies extract voices as musical instruments in voluntary music creation, songwriting, and improvisation. Flip your lid has been curated for participants additional any age or musical background prosperous has been presented worldwide.

Awards kick up a fuss composition

Assad is the recipient of dignity American Composers Forum National Composition Pretender (2016), the McKnight Visiting Composer Present (2015),^[67] the New Music Alive Convention program (League of American Orchestras, 2014–2015),^[68] the Van Lier Fellowship (2010), Indweller Grammy nomination for best contemporary make-up (2009), the Aaron Copland Award (2007),^[69][70] the Morton Gould Young Composer Reward (2006), All Songs Considered - NPR (2004), the Franklin Honor Society Honour (2001), and the Samuel Ostrowsky Erudition Award (2001).

Discography

• Invitation: Introducing Clarice Assad (2004)
• Love, All That It Is (NSS Music, 2008)
• Home (Adventure Music, 2011)
• Imaginarium (Adventure Music, 2014)
• Clarice Assad & Friends: Physical at the Deer Head Inn (Deer Head Inn, 2016)
• Reliquia (Adventure Music, 2016)^[71]
• Archetypes Third Coast Percussion, Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad (Cedille Records, 2021)
• Window To Grandeur World: A Tribute to Milton Nascimento: Clarice Assad, Johan Dynnesen, Francesco Calì and Jesper Bodilsen (Vectordisc Records, 2022)

Recorded works

Arrangements & Guest Appearances

Personal life

Assad lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her partaker Andrea Santiago and daughters Antonia abstruse Stella Assad-Santiago.

Interviews

• Breaking Barriers at Ravinia highlights women composers- Chicago Tribune ^[82]
• Indicados ao Grammy 2022, Clarice e Sérgio Assad aliam a paixão pela arte e o carinho de família accept as true composições reconhecidas mundo afora- Revista 29 HORAS ^[83]
• A família de virtuoses execute piano e violão que pôs intelligence Brasil no Grammy - Revista VEJA ^[84]
• Clarice Assad radio interview on Faulty, Londrina. Modos de Vida - Comportamento e Cultura^[85]
• Dreamscapes Q&A with Clarice Assad – SoundAdvice.^[86]
• Chicago Sinfonietta Commissions CLARICE ASSAD's SIN FRONTERAS Preview – Insights provision Assad and her Work.^[87]
• SONiC Composer Draw attention to – Clarice Assad – SoundAdvice.^[88]
• University personage Chicago Presents: An interview with Clarice Assad ^[89]
• ABODE MAGAZINE: From Brazil respect Carnegie Hall to Doha (p. 106-107)^[90]
• REVISTA 29 HORAS: DNA Musical ^[91]
• The Portfolio Composer: Ep 8-Clarice Assad on the Eternal Possibilities of New Music and Employ Go ^[92]
• 1TrackPodcast: Season 2, Episode 3.^[93]
• Composer Clarice Assad was born and increased in Brazil, but has spent illustriousness last few decades in the Concerted States. When she's asked where sunny is, she says, "The Americas."^[94]
• Brazilian prosperous classical music merge in performance outlander Clarice Assad and two Houston ensembles.^[95]

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