Duo Assad

Several Times Awarded And Acknowledged As The Best Classic Guitar Duo In The World The Duo Assad Was Formed By The Brothers Sérgio Simão Assad And Odair Simão Assad At A Very Early Age. Beginning To Play The Acoustic Guitar At Exactly The Same Time They Always Studied With The Same Teachers And Learned The Same Music. Eminent Brazilian Composers Like Radamés Gnattali Marlos Nobre Edino Krieger And Francisco Mignone Have Dedicated Pieces To Them And So Did Roland Dyens Nikita Koshkin Piazzolla. Their Father A Mandolinist And Chorão Choro Genre Player Initiated Them In The Mysteries Of The Violão In 1966. With All The Family Moving In 1969 To Rio De Janeiro The Two Brothers Took Classical Guitarist And Lutenist Monina Távora Former Andrés Segovia Disciple As Teacher For Seven Years. In 1973 They Won The Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra Competition For Young Soloists. In 1977 They Recorded An LP For The First Time With The Orquestra Armorial. They Would Record More Than 21 Solo Albums In The Duo's Career And Appear In Important Releases Such As Yo Yo Ma's Soul Of The Tango CD 1997 . In 1979 They Debuted In The U.S. Their Start In Europe Came With The Winning Of A Major Prize That Same Year At The "Rostrum Of Young Interpreters" In Bratislava Czechoslovakia With The Recording Of A Solo Album . In 1983 Having Established Their International Career Solidly They Settled In That Continent. Performances Some Of Them With Orchestra Throughout Scandinavia Australia Finland Turku Music Festival 1987 Great Britain Turkey Istambul Festival 1987 Taiwan Luxembourg Slovenia Germany Austria Portugal Greece Poland France Paris 1982 Les Musiques Du Monde Festival Belgium Italy Spain Switzerland Holland Hong Kong Denmark Norway Sweden Canada Israel Japan Argentina And Brazil Followed. The Duo Played With The Following Orchestras Among Others Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira Adelaide Symphonic Orchestra Australia Buenos Aires Symphonic Orchestra Argentina RAI Italy And Belgium National Orchestra. In 1993 And 1994 They Performed At The Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall In New York. In 1995 They Toured North America Performing At Toronto's Ford Centre Phoenix Nashville The Wolf Trap Foundation In Vienna Virginia And New York City. In The Next Year They Played At Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium And In San Francisco Seattle Miami And New York City. ~ Alvaro Neder All Music Guide read less