It has a deep feeling of solace, which one would expect in a piece about her mother who survived cancer. The piece following “Jester” is “Caregiver,” which goes in a completely different direction. … The Jester character is like a frustrated conductor who can’t get the music to sound right.” The act involves the audience who also interact with us. When it’s performed, Assad declared, “I am the Jester, I become it. … The Jester had to bring something light, and fun about the whole thing.” She noted its placement in the middle and suggested it separates the CD into two parts like an intermission. When asked about “Jester,” one of her compositions that stands out, Assad said, “Archetypes is a very serious project for the most part. The pieces in Archetypes focus on general human characteristics with one-word titles, somewhat rated to those developed by Carl Jung. Archetypes by Third Coast Percussion, Clarice Assad, and Sérgio Assad.
And it’s really incredible.” They ended up becoming good friends.
Their personalities really come across in the writing of each piece that they have done. … Playing their music together, a whole other level of getting to know people. “It’s one thing when you are listening to their music, and another looking at their scores. It was really beautiful workshopping with them,” she recalled. “We listened to each other so much in the process because we had many conversations about instrumentation, timber. Acoustic guitar, piano, and Assad’s vocals enhances Third Coast Percussion’s sound, as does the infusion of Latin and Brazilian rhythms.Īssad learned a great deal working with TCP. The juxtaposition of Clarice and Sérgio Assad’s compositions with those by Third Coast Percussion creates a wonderfully varied panoply. While these 12 pieces are song-length miniatures, they are not songs, or, even, songs-without-words. It meant they really are into the idea.”Īs it happened, Clarice and her dad each wrote four pieces for Archetypes, and each member of Third Coast Percussion contributed one. “It was supposed to be just my dad and myself writing the music,” recalled Assad, but when they got together with TCP, “They all wanted to write music too,” she laughed. They had to really think about it, is this worth undertaking?” As it happened, Third Coast Percussion seemed very intrigued. “When we first approached them, they were very in demand, really busy. She explained how the collaboration with Third Coast Percussion emerged. “Let’s work with something that connects all of us, and I thought of the 12 main archetypes.”
After discussion with other potential collaborators, they recognized that few people outside of Brazil know these characters and myths. Their initial thought was to emphasize myths and legends from Brazil. My father and I were thinking about a project that would involve us writing something together and collaborating with others.” Clarice and Sérgio Assad collaborated with Third Coast Percussion to create Archetypes. We get along really well in real life and musically. I really love collaborating with my father. “So, starting there a seed was planted.… Fast forward to 2019. “I was like, oh my god! I love them!” She paused to reflect. Unable to prevent myself, I jumped in, “ Saturday night! That was one of most amazing, memorable concerts I’ve ever seen!” And one of the most amazing performances was, …” In an interview in March, she recalled, “Okay, I have to go to this festival, check it out so I bought the pass and I watched every performance. She had just moved to Chicago, and she attended an event that solidified her enthusiasm for Chicago’s art music scene. Her first exposure to Third Coast Percussion occurred at the Ear Taxi Festival in October 2016. Clarice Assad and her father Sérgio have always been close. COVID-19 has delayed the world premiere public performance of this work, but they are in rehearsals to film it. Most recently, Assad, her father, and Third Coast Percussion collaborated on Archetypes, a wonderful CD that features all the artists entering a whole new milieu. Her compositions have been performed and recorded by many Chicago performers and ensembles, including the Chicago Sinfonietta, Cavatina Duo, and Chicago-area native Matthew Lipman. After living in New York City for ten years, Clarice moved back to Chicago in 2016 and has quickly become a fixture in our music scene. Clarice Assad had lived in Chicago on and off with her father Sérgio Assad, who, with his brother Odair, are the Assad Brothers, a premier classical guitar duo. One of the more recent arrivals to Chicago’s vibrant art music scene is a product of a musical family in Brazil. Composer, performer, and educator Clarice Assad brings a rich musical palette to Chicago.
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