colloqium48 - Enzo Sourhane, Inbar Sharet [MA MP Musiktheorie]

Stille in der Musik

Im Alter von 8 Jahren begann Enzo Sourhane auf Anregung seines Vaters, eines Musikers, mit dem Studium der klassischen Gitarre. Parallel dazu wandte er sich dem Komponieren zu und trat mit 19 Jahren in das Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) ein. Mit 25 Jahren fühlte er sich zunehmend zum Jazz hingezogen und beschloss, sich als Autodidakt diesem Genre zu widmen. Parallel dazu komponiert er und bildet sich als aktiver Lehrer an französischen Konservatorien in Pädagogik an den  Schweizer Musikhochschulen weiter.

Inbar Sharet: Songs of an extinct invented tradition – reconstructing the 1936 passover ceremony of Yehuda Sharett

In the spring of 1936, in a small and evolving workers’ community near the Carmel Mountains (then Palestine under the British Mandate) dozens of members gathered in the central dining hall to take part in a completely new kind of event: a mixture of narrators reading, choirs singing, instruments playing, children and adults alike. The entire community participated in the artistic act, breaking any hierarchy between performer and spectator.
This event was celebrated as the new communal Passover ceremony, yet one that was radically different from the traditional Jewish celebration – both in content and in form. The figure responsible for this event was the composer and educator Yehuda Sharett (1901–1979), who edited the material, composed the music, and rehearsed it with his community of Kibbutz Yagur.
Over the years, Sharett refined and revised his work and published a full score that has since been performed and recorded. However, the original 1936 version has no coherent score, nor any recordings or visual documentation.
In his research, Inbar Sharet – the great-grandson of Yehuda Sharett –  is working on a reconstruction of that first version of the Passover ceremony. This ongoing project consists both of the production of a critical edition of the score and of a performance based on the historical sources.
The lecture will offer a first insight into this artistic research act of reconstruction, explaining its different working methods and the motivations behind it. In addition, it will present excerpts from a new documentation of a performance of songs from this edition, recorded by an ensemble in Basel directed by Inbar Sharet.

Inbar Sharet is an Israeli-born composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist currently residing in Basel, Switzerland. His music has been performed by ensembles such as Meitar Ensemble (IL), Ensemble Zone Experimentale (CH), and Sonic Space Basel Alumni Ensemble (CH). He has participated as both a composer and performer in festivals, including “Tzlil Meudcan” (Tel Aviv, IL), “Spiel!” (Basel, CH), and “Opening festival (Trier, DE). Inbar holds a Master of Music in Composition from the Hochschule für Musik Basel, and a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University. Currently, he is pursuing his second master’s in music theory and pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik Basel (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and Sonic Space Basel).  He has received prizes such as the Sharett Scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (2022–2025) and the Klon Competition for Young Composers (2021).