Discipline: Music Composition

Clarice Assad

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
More: www.clariceassad.com
The prestigious San Francisco Chronicle has described Clarice Assad as “a serious triple threat.” The Brazilian-American is a Grammy nominated composer, performer, and educator of musical depth and ability. Carefully crafted colorful textures permeate her soulful and musical world, which embraces a wide variety of styles, from symphonic to chamber music, avant-garde to Brazilian genres and French chanson. As a performer, Assad often appears on piano and explores the voice as an instrument, creating a vast array of innovative textures and extended techniques in her music. An avid educator, she is the founder of VOXploration, an award winning research-based outreach program that touches the lives of many people. Clarice's mission is to connect, inspire, and empower people through music.

Studios

Monday Music

Clarice Assad worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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