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  • Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha

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  • Black is Beautiful

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VOXPLORATIONS: VOCAL IMPROVISATION AND BODY PERCUSSION WORKSHOP:

Grammy award nominee composer Clarice Assad leads a workshop on music creation, vocal improvisation and mouth & body percussion. Assad, also an accomplished arranger, pianist and singer, provides accessible and challenging entry into skills of musical play and improvisation for all levels and styles of musical cultivation. 


Mixing permission and demand, open sourcing with structured forming, the class builds tolerance for the unknown, the flop, the crystalizing moment, the intensity of presence and the diversity of ability.

Modeling what she invites at the highest level, her musicianship and trust in beginners mind set loose a mighty wind, allowing the seven notes and charging the twelve pulses into life. 

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  • Ad. Lib

My new sounds:

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  • Suite For Chamber Orchestra Fusion-Danca Brasileira

Suite For Chamber Orchestra Fusion-Danca Brasileira

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  • Precision" Perpetual Motion

Precision: Perpetual Motion by Clarice Assad - Performed by the New Century Chamber Orchestra

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NEW ARRANGEMENTS ON THE HORIZON

BRAVO! Vail Music Festival (July-August) 

Happy Birthday - Theme & Variation for Anne-Marie McDermott (piano), Ida Kavafian (violin) & Eugenia Zukerman

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  • Todo Sentimento - Cristovão Bastos & Chico Buarque - arr. Clarice Assad

Todo Sentimento, by Cristovão Bastos & Chico Buarque, arranged by Clarice Assad for the New Century Chamber Orchestra

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  • Leaving (From Back To Our Roots Suite) Music By Sergio & Clarice Assad - arr. C. Assad

Text by Christiane Karam - Portuguese translation by Daniel Basilio

This is a live recording at the Sherwood Auditorium (San Diego) featuring Odair Assad, guitar, Sergio Assad sazouki and The Old City String Quartet (violinists Bryan Lee and Joel Link, violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt and cellist Camden Shaw) double bassist Samuel Hager.(violinist Sonja Harasim and Xiaoxiao Qiang, violist Zachary Carrettin and cellist Lachezar Kostov)

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(How I like to write (Yealy Blog) I love working with a preconceived idea in mind… A theme, an object, a notion; anything that might follow a story line or a logical sense (at least to me) to get my imagination going.  I love arranging music that already exists in a completely different way than it was conceived before, and through it … create a ‘parallel composition’ of sorts… And, I love holding music close to me.  So, if I’m writing on a piece of paper, I like to keep the notebook on my lap.  If I’m writing on the computer I love to do it on a laptop - to me it’s almost a tactile experience.  I feel that have better, more creative ideas at night, but I find it to easier to concentrate in the mornings.  I enjoy composing with a biiiig coffee mug right next to me.  I like taking small breaks and check my email once in a while.  Sometimes, when nothing seems to be flowing perfectly, I take longer breaks and spend the rest of the time freaking out about it.  I can’t help it.I always try to do something I haven’t done before.  It could be form-wise… instrumentation-wise… effect-wise…. and so forth. I like challenges.  And I love writing for a lot of instruments.  The more, the better.   I enjoy hearing my piece being performed for the first time, even knowing that it will not sound good when it’s first played through.  I like seeing/hearing it being developed.  I don’t mind giving my opinion about things, but I’d rather leave the performers free to do what they want.  I’m a ‘sound collector’ and like to record musicians and sounds I love.  I keep them in a folder called “Music I love” - I do believe that the first and last impressions of a composition are very important so it’s a good idea to spend an extra time making those extra interesting…  I worked as a composer/performer for an improvisational dance group recently and I found that following the dancer’s movements have added positively to a greater degree to my spatial musical perception… Music is my entire life.  Sound is part of my everyday world. I feel blessed to be able to make a living out of something I love so much.   
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I love working with a preconceived idea in mind… A theme, an object, a notion; anything that might follow a story line or a logical sense (at least to me) to get my imagination going. 

I love arranging music that already exists in a completely different way than it was conceived before, and through it … create a ‘parallel composition’ of sorts…

And, I love holding music close to me.  So, if I’m writing on a piece of paper, I like to keep the notebook on my lap.  If I’m writing on the computer I love to do it on a laptop - to me it’s almost a tactile experience. 

I feel that have better, more creative ideas at night, but I find it to easier to concentrate in the mornings.  I enjoy composing with a biiiig coffee mug right next to me.  I like taking small breaks and check my email once in a while.  

Sometimes, when nothing seems to be flowing perfectly, I take longer breaks and spend the rest of the time freaking out about it.  I can’t help it.

I always try to do something I haven’t done before.  It could be form-wise… instrumentation-wise… effect-wise…. and so forth.

I like challenges.  And I love writing for a lot of instruments.  The more, the better.  

I enjoy hearing my piece being performed for the first time, even knowing that it will not sound good when it’s first played through.  I like seeing/hearing it being developed.  I don’t mind giving my opinion about things, but I’d rather leave the performers free to do what they want. 

I’m a ‘sound collector’ and like to record musicians and sounds I love.  I keep them in a folder called “Music I love” -

I do believe that the first and last impressions of a composition are very important so it’s a good idea to spend an extra time making those extra interesting… 

I worked as a composer/performer for an improvisational dance group recently and I found that following the dancer’s movements have added positively to a greater degree to my spatial musical perception…

Music is my entire life.  Sound is part of my everyday world. I feel blessed to be able to make a living out of something I love so much.