Educational Programs
Clarice Assad builds music programs inside institutions: orchestras, universities, schools and public radio. No two have ever been the same.
Some are a single workshop, where a room of people who do not call themselves musicians are making music together within the hour. Some run a full season and end in a premiere. Some are one composer and Clarice, going through a score bar by bar.
Residencies
Built for the room it's in.
A residency can run a week or four seasons. At MIT it became Amazônia Sem Lei. With the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra it took a year and became THE EVOLUTION OF AI. In Albany, high schoolers from Girls Inc. wrote a piece of their own and performed it with the orchestra. In Allentown, Assad is several seasons into a run that goes through 2027.
Voxploration
Your body is your instrument.
An award-winning workshop in improvisation, built on making music with nothing but the voice and the body: no instruments, no notation, no experience required. It works with second-graders, with conservatory students, and with adults. VOXploration mixes music, theater, movement and creates an environment where everyone in the room is creating together within minutes.
Music Education in Action
MIT · St. Paul Chamber Orchestra · KMFA Austin · Albany Symphony · University of Maryland School of Music · LEVANTA Institute · Allentown Symphony Orchestra and more.
More ways to work with Clarice Assad
COMPOSER MENTORING
For composers, one to one.
Clarice Assad’s approach to teaching comes from understanding every student’s personal needs, abilities and identifying places where they need most work. Usually in an environment where the music can be performed and workshopped by real musicians, composition and arranging are treated in different ways. Assad also tackles career advice, such as commissioning, working with others and pursuing one’s dreams in the field of music.
Skillshare: Voxploration
Take it online, at your own pace.
The VOXploration lessons, filmed and available on Skillshare, so anyone can work through them from home. The voice is unique to every person, and the series explores it as an instrument capable of a wide range of sounds, colors, rhythms and moods. Watch in any order, from anywhere, and go at your own speed.