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BIOGRAPHY
"Bustan's music moves the heart, sometimes bursting with longing, and then reassembling in a European-elegant way. The harmonies change suddenly from a campfire in the desert to Johann Sebastian Bach in the Thomaskirche - and back. The impressive thing is, with which ease it overcomes the distances..." Jüdische Allgemeine
Shaul graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in 2009, holding a master’s degree in composition. Among his teachers were violinist Motti Smidt, composer Haim Permont, and conductor and composer Aharon Harlap.
Throughout his career, he has composed over 300 pieces; from opera to chamber and orchestral music to music for film, theatre and dance. Shauls music has been performed in concerts internationally by the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Jewish Symphony (USA), the Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik - Innsbruck (Austria), Musica Nova Ensemble (Israel), Meitar Ensemble (Israel), by the mandolinist Avi Avital, the klezmer maestro Giora Feidman and at the Schleswig-Holstein music festival.
Since 2011, Shauls is based in Berlin. He has put his focus on composing and performing his own music on the Oud. As well as being the musical director of the site-specific theatre company “Das letzte Kleinod”, he conducts several choirs in Berlin and performs regularly throughout Germany with his trio.
He won the Chana Avni-Yaddor's Composition Competition (2007-2008), the 2005/6 Deborah Grossman Award for Excellence in Music Education, with Das Letzte Kleinod the 'Theaterpreis des Bundes 2015' and 'Hermann-Allmers-Preis', and was awarded scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (2002-08) and the Berlin Senate in the JAZZ composition section (2017).
CALENDAR
January 2018
20th of January at 8 pm - Café verweile doch, Breite Straße 2a, 13187 Berlin
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
February 2018
3th February at 7:30 pm - Schwartzsche Villa (Großer Salon), Grunewaldstraße 55 12165 Berlin
SHAUL BUSTAN TRIO
Admission: 12 € (10 €) Tickets: shaul@shaulbustan.com
March 2018
12th March at 7:30 pm - Stadtbibliothek - Bremerhaven
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
13th March at 8 pm - Hofbuchhandlung Kathrin Wellmann - Wardenburg
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
May 2018
3th May at 7 pm - Katholischen Familienbildungsstätte - Bonn
Reading "Etty Hillesum"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
5th May at 8 pm - Bühne Bunter Vorhang - Unter den Linden 39, 21255 Tostedt
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
September 2018
2nd September at 5 pm - Ev. Kirchengemeinde Nordend, Schönhauser Str. 32, 13158 Berlin
SHAUL BUSTAN SOLO
Mandolin and Oud, Israeli and Yiddish songs, music from Iran, pieces by Bach, Vivaldi. Ben-Haim and own compositions.
14th September at 7:30 pm - Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
October 2018
6th October at 7:30 pm - Old Parish Church Pankow, Breite Str. 37, 13187 Berlin
SHAUL BUSTAN TRIO
13th October at 8 pm - Kulturzentrum Marstall, Lübecker Straße 8, 22926 Ahrensburg
SHAUL BUSTAN TRIO
14th October at 5 pm - St. Marien Kirche, Flensburg
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
20th October at 7:30 pm - Kulturwirkstatt Ilow e.V., Ilow 18, 23974 Neuburg/OT Ilow
SHAUL BUSTAN TRIO
26th October at 7:30 pm - Johannisklang - Johanniskirchhof 22, Flensburg
SHAUL BUSTAN TRIO
27th October at 7:30 pm - Bühne Bunter Vorhang - Unter den Linden 39, 21255 Tostedt
SHAUL BUSTAN TRIO
November 2018
8h November at 5 pm - Zeuthen
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
14th November at 7:30 pm - Spiekeroog - Kino
Reading Performance "We are both meschugge"
with the actress Claudia Schwartz
musical accompaniment: Shaul Bustan
PRESS
Jüdische Allgemeine
ZDF morgenmagazin
nachtkritik
Jüdische Allgemeine
Deutschlandradio Kultur
Haaretz
COMPOSITIONS
Sirokos
Dur. apx. 40 min. (2013) (Download excerpt - Pdf)
Music Lab and drafts: Excerpt (mp3 - 5'46")
Violin: Neta Rudich, Bass Clarinet: Florian Bergmann,
Double bass: Shaul Bustan
Songs for Ilil
Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Piano, Soprano, Violin/Viola, and Cello, Meitar Ensemble conducted by Guy Feder,
Soprano: Tehila Nini- Goldstein (2009)
1st song (mp3 - 3'22")
Excerpt from the 4th song (mp3 - 1'10")
Kaddish
The Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva
conducted by Doron Salomon
Dur. 14 min. (2006)
Excerpt (mp3 - 42")
River Songs
lyrics by Leah Goldberg - for SATB Choir,The Jerusalem Music Academy students conducted by Tomer Haseg (2006)
1st song (mp3 - 3'03")
COMPOSITION FOR FILM & THEATRE
Chamber Opera
Chamber Opera - Hebrew lyrics: Shahar Gabay
Three sopranos, actor, mixed choir, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, guitar and strings. Dur. 80 min. (2008)
the Koninklijke Harmoniekapel
GOETZEN/LIEMBA
Musical Theatre
for Flute, Persian Tar, Santur, Zarb, Soprano, Narrator & Strings
Original musical theatre based on a Persian folktale
6 Movements - Dur. 27 min. (2010)
Seven pictures (film)
Shaul Bustan
MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST AND CONDUCTOR
Shalma
With Samweli Mandoo
Persian concert
Shaul Bustan - Arrangement and Tar
Rotem Ensemble
Dayan (percussion)
Improvisation
Nitai Levi - bass clarinet
Tahadia
("Restfulness") - 2010
Jerusalem Music Centre
collection of God
DISCOGRAPHY
by Samweli Mandoo and Shaul Bustan (2015)
PHOTOS
