Artist Info: 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. [read more...]