Pendulum II. The Caregiver

for Trumpet and Piano

Clarice Assad

Special Supplement to the January 2021 ITG Journal

Pendulum II: The Caregiver

for Trumpet and Piano Clarice Assad

About the composer: A powerful communicator renowned for her musical scope and versatility, Brazilian-American Clarice Assad is a significant artistic voice in the classical, world music, pop, and jazz genres, renowned for her evocative colors, rich textures, and diverse stylistic range. A classically trained pianist, she is deeply rooted in the earthy, folkloric rhythms of Brazil, capturing the at-tention of international audiences with her talent. She is a recipient of the Aaron Copland Award, several ascap awards in composition, a Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Van Lier Fellowship, the Franklin Honor Society Award, the Samuel Ostrowsky Hu-manities Award, the New Music Alive Partnership program by the League of American Orchestras, and a McKnight Visiting Com-poser Award. A prolific Grammy-nominated composer with over works to her credit, her work has been commissioned by inter-nationally renowned organizations, festivals and artists, and are published in France (Editions Lemoine), Germany (Trekel), Cri-adores do Brasil (Brazil) and in the us by Virtual Artists Collective Publishing. A sought-after performer, she is a celebrated pianist and inventive vocalist. Ms. Assad has released seven solo albums and appeared on or had her works performed on another . Her music is represented on Cedille Records, sony Masterworks, Nonesuch, Adventure Music, Edge, Telarc, nss Music, gha, and chandos. As an innovator, her award-winning Voxploration Series on music education, creation, songwriting and improvisation has been presented throughout the United States, Brazil, Europe and the Middle East. With her talents sought-after by artists and organizations worldwide, the multi-talented musician continues to attract new audiences both onstage and off. Assad holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Roo-sevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, and a Master of Music degree from The University of Michigan School of Music, where she studied with Michael Daugherty, Susan Botti, and Evan Chambers.

About the music: For a project, ITG’s Commissions Committee was seeking to meet two particular objectives:

gender diversity and an outstanding work by a Latin American composer. Clarice Assad became the unanimous first choice. Her new work, Pendulum, is indeed “A dynamic work for trumpet, scat singing and piano, featuring extended vocal techniques, vocal percussion, and an extra part for mouth harp,” as she describes. The fifteen-minute, three-movement composition “explores dance-like rhythmic intensity, rich harmonic color of the music from South America, and a beautiful, longing intermezzo-esque movement for piano and trumpet.” After the premiere performance and further reflection, Assad retitled the second movement, originally titled “Celestial” as “The Caregiver,” since she believed this to be a more accurate depiction of the music. Trumpeter José Sibaja joined Assad (vocalist and pianist) on July , , for the premiere at the ITG Conference in Miami.

(Notes by Luis C. Engelke, chair, ITG Commissions Committee)

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