Sérgio Assad-Composer

Sérgio Assad is a Brazilian guitaristcomposer, and arranger who often performs with his brother in the guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad, commonly referred to as Assad Brothers or Duo Assad.Born into a musical family in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil, Sergio Assad began creating music for the guitar not long after he began playing the instrument. He learned Brazilian folk melodies from his father. By age 14, he was arranging and writing original compositions for the guitar duo he had formed with his brother, Odair. At the age of 17, he and Odair began their studies under the best known classical guitar teacher in Brazil at the time, Monina Tavora, a former disciple of Andrés Segovia. Sergio later went on to study conducting and composition at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro, and worked privately with Brazilian composition teacher, Esther Scliar.Over the last twenty years Assad has concentrated most of his efforts on building a repertoire for the guitar duo. He has extended the possibilities of the two-guitar combination through his arrangements of Latin American music by composers such as PiazzollaVilla Lobos, and Ginastera as well as Baroque to Modern music by ScarlattiRameauSoler,BachMompouRavelDebussy, and Gershwin among others. He has completed over 300 arrangements for different chamber music settings arrangements for Gidon Kremer,Dawn UpshawYo Yo MaNadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, TrioConBrio, Iwao Furusawa, Paquito D’RiveraTurtle Island String Quartet, L.A. Quartet, Luciana Souza, and Vancouver Cantata Singers.

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