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Sérgio & Odair Assad GHA RECORDS Discography About the artist 
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 1969: 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 themselves in Europe. Their amazing talent and extraordinary musical personalities astounded and delighted audience after audience. Amongst them was the legendary Astor Piazzolla, who was completely captivated after hearing the siblings play at the house of a mutual friend in Paris in 1983. Shortly afterwards Astor Piazzolla dedicated three original tangos for two guitars to them, the Tango Suite, which has become part of the repertoire of most of today’s guitar duos all over the world. During their exploration of the treasures of Baroque music, the two brothers each played one hand in two-handed harpsichord pieces of Rameau, Scarlatti, Bach and Couperin, a marvellous experiment which produced a record. Over the years, they have refined their surprising yet harmonious way of mixing styles, periods and cultures, which can be witnessed even in the course of a single evening's concert. The Assad brothers have added to their repertoire not only the pieces written for them by Nikita Koshkin, Terry Riley and many others, but they have also composed a series of daring adaptations including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Their rendition of Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche or Alberto Ginastera's Sonata opus 22 for piano leaves audiences amazed to discover that a score so familiar to them can be given such a new and fresh interpretation as regards color, rhythm and passion. Various commissions and joint projects have since widened the scope of the brothers’ musical involvement: the music of the Japanese film Natsu no Niwa which Sérgio was asked to write and was recorded by the brothers in 1994. Or their joint concerts and recordings: in 1996 with violinist Gidon Kremer and soprano Dawn Upshaw: in 1997 with cellist Yo-Yo Ma (Grammy Award) and violinist Fernando Suarez Paz: in 1998 with violinist Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg, and in 1999 with violinist Iwao Furusawa. Not to mention the concertos for two guitars written for them by Brazilian composers Edino Krieger and Marlos Nobre, and the projects which they are eagerly planning for the future. Their dedicated work and boundless imagination have given Sérgio and Odair the status of “commanders in the world of the guitar”. This duo is a "veritable phenomenon which, with time to mature, will go down in history" (Diapason). 
Guitarist acoustic - Août à octobre 2004 ; 120 - 122 To Allo Vima (Arts & Culture) 24/02/2002 Guitare Classique - Octobre à décembre 2001 ; 12 - 17 Samstag – Thomas Muttray-Kraus - 25/11/2000 Seicorde - Settembre 2000 Rhyt...
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