Last night at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, the Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts Dynamite Guitars season presented a duo performance by guitarist Sérgio Assad and his daughter Clarice, vocalist, pianist, and composer. Both of these performers figured significantly when I was working on the early stages of refining my writing skills. Sérgio was on the Guitar Faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Clarice was bringing her scores to several performing arts organizations in San Francisco, including a productive relationship with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg when she was Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra.
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CLARICE ASSAD QUARTET DK TOUR DATES 19/9 Flensborghus Flensburg 20:00 20/9 21/9 22/9 23/9 24/9 25/9 Paolo’s Jazz Club Jazzselskabet Aarhus Askov Højskole Sankt Jakobs Kirke Lyngby-Taarbæk Jazzklub Kulturstafetten Askeby
Clarice Assad made history as the first woman commissioned to create an original score for Grupo Corpo. Her composition for “Piracema” premiered in 2025 as part of the company’s 50th
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