Odair assad biography books

Taught by a student of Andrés Segovia, and raised in the home of the samba, Sérgio and Odair Assad bring a singular combination of influences to all that they do. Sérgio and Odair grew up in a small town of Brazil, studying, practicing and performing as a duo. It is this identical musical education and experience that The New York Times credits for their “supple, flawlessly unified sound”. As children they already gave concerts in their native Brazil, they were still teenagers when they first performed in New York in the musical career of the Assad Brothers has been a path both fascinating and successful. They started out with the traditional repertoire of the guitar duo Presti-Lagoya as their base, to which they added contributions of fellow Brazilians Radamés Gnattali, Francisco Mignone, Heitor Villa Lobos, Marlos Nobre, Egberto Gismonti, Wagner Tiso and Hermeto Pascoal.

In the early eighties, Sérgio and Odair rapidly succeeded in making a name for thems

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From the CG Vault: Odair Assad on His First Solo skiva, Brouwer, Gismonti, Sérgio, and More!

BY THÉRÈSE WASSILY SABA / FROM THE MAY ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR

In , Odair Assad made his first solo recording El Caminante, which has been released on GHA Records. Performing as a soloist has been a remarkable experience for Odair, having had an internationally acclaimed career as duo with his brother, composer and guitarist Sérgio Assad. I met up with Odair after his first solo recitals at the Cordoba International Guitar Festival, and interviewed him after a concert of the Assad Brothers at the Koblenz International Guitar Festival, where he also played a few solo pieces. We spoke again more recently to catch up with the latest news about his performing as a solist and about some of the wonderful new repertoire that has been written for him.

Thérèse Wassily Saba: I was so pleased to hear the première and deuxième of Brouwer’s Sonata sektion caminante, as you played it

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Sérgio Assad

Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger

Musical artist

Sérgio Assad (born 26 December ) is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with his brother, Odair, in the guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad, commonly referred to as the Assad Brothers or Duo Assad. Their younger sister Badi is also a guitarist. Assad is the father of composer/singer/pianist Clarice Assad. He is married to Angela Olinto.

Biography

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Born into a musical family in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil, 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.^[1] Sergio later went o