CLARICE ASSAD feat. Keita Ogawa

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Brazil's freshest symphonic & chamber music composer, arranger, singer-songwriter and pianist with Japanese percussionist/drummer

"Clarice Assad is quite simply a phenomenon who has streaked across the world’s musical landscape like one of those comets that appears just once in a lifetime" LATIN JAZZ NETWORK

Tuesday, Oct 2

8pm $22

Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as a "serious triple threat...a veritable musical dynamo” and "one of Brazil's brightest young composers" (Gramophone), Clarice Assad is making her mark in the music world as a pianist, arranger, vocalist and a composer. A prolific and versatile artist of musical depth and sophistication, Assad's music embraces a wide variety of styles, which are often merged, as to fashion original musical concepts.

Highlights include the premiere of "Terra Brasilis" a five-minute fantasy on the Brazilian National Anthem commissioned by OSESP and its new music director Marin Alsop, to be performed in March 2012. Also in March, Ms. Assad will be performing in the world premiere of her concerto “Scattered” with the Symphony Parnassus. This work is the first known concerto for scat vocalist, piano and orchestra. In April, the release of Home, a new recording exploring Brazilian themes written by Assad with percussionists Keita Ogawa and Yousif Sheronick on Adventure Music. Ms. Assad has been commissioned to write for the Hidden World of Girls Symphonic Project under the direction of Marin Alsop to be premiered in June 2012 as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Cabrillo Music Festival. The summer also brings two commissions in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the BRAVO! Vail Music Festival with a solo piano piece for pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and another work, featuring the festival’s former music directors: flutist Eugenia Zuckerman and violinist Ida Kavafian. October brings the world premiere of a new concerto for two guitars and chamber orchestra featuring Sergio and Odair Assad, commissioned by Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.

For more information, visit the event page here:
http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artist/show/2918

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http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco

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415-655-5600 (Box Office)