Saturday 14 May

Jnan Sbil Garden – 16.30

Yom – France, The Silence of Exodus

Yom, clarinet and composition

Farid D, cello

Claude Tchamitchian, double bass

Bijan Chemirani, zarb, daf and bendir (percussion)

 

Master clarinettist and enthusiastic composer, Yom wrote The Silence of Exodus as a journey through a two-way mirror, half way between powerful ancestry and stunning modernity.

Based on the historical story of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and their long years of wandering in the Sinai desert, Yom dives into the universal confrontation of the human being with his existential solitude through all types of exodus, whatever their point of departure and destination.

This work has a passionate musical intensity that is truly rich. It could not be a better illustration of how music can impose its sacredness solely through the inspiration of the artist.

The Silence of Exodus was commissioned for the Festival d’Ile-de-France in 2012.