Clarice Assad | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Clarice Vasconcelos da Cunha Assad Simão |
Born |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
February 9, 1978
Genres | Jazz, classical, pop, world |
Occupation(s) | Singer, musician |
Instruments | Piano |
Years active | 1996–present |
Labels | Adventure |
Website | www |
Clarice Assad is a singer, pianist, and composer from Rio de Janeiro.
Assad has performed professionally since the age of seven. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Roosevelt University in Chicago and a master's degree in Composition from the University of Michigan. She is a 2009 Latin Grammy nominee.
She comes from a musical family, which includes her father, guitarist Sergio Assad, her uncle, guitarist Odair Assad, and her aunt, singer Badi Assad.
Her works have been published in France (Editions Lemoine), Germany (Trekel), and in the United States (Virtual Artists Collective Publishing), and have been performed in Europe, South America, the United States and Japan.
Clarice Assad is a NSS Music and Adventure Music artist. Her music is licensed through ASCAP and Parma Recordings. She was the featured composer for the 2008–2009 season at the New Century Chamber Orchestra, where she currently works as the orchestra's primary arranger and orchestrator.
Her music has been performed and recorded by orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians, such as Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Iwao Furusawa, Yo-Yo Ma, Assad Brothers, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, Cavatina Duo, Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony, and the New Century Chamber Orchestra, as well as conductors Marin Alsop and Christoph Eschenbach, Robert Bernhardt, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Alondra de la Parra.