Following critically acclaimed performances in New York, James Austin Smith brings his musical-historical project Hearing Memory to German audiences. Presented with oboist Christian Wetzel and students of the Cologne Conservatory of Music and Dance, the performances explore an overlooked East German avant-garde that flourished in the 1970s and 1980s. In an era of strained international relations, they tell the story of the German-German Oboe Duo, a cross-border collaboration between two adventurous oboists that helped to reveal cracks in the Iron Curtain.

Saturday May 10, 7:30PM | Kammermusik Saal, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz | Cologne, Germany

Monday, May 12, 11AM | Gohliser Schlößchen | Leipzig, Germany

Tuesday, May 13, 7:30PM | Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek | Dresden, Germany