In their musical encounter, musicians Ran Wang (guzheng) and Annette Bauer (sarod, recorders, duduk, pipe and tabor) traverse the silk road from East to West. Their journey invites the audience along a geographical route from China via India to Italy. Together, they weave through different historical periods by presenting music from the ancient Han dynasty (200BC-9AD) to music from the emerging European 15^th century Renaissance.

The program equally imagines and draws inspirations from different physical and emotional landscapes that might be encountered by a timeless traveller – from witnessing a deeply moving beauty in unfamiliar landscapes, to adventurously daring to set out on a long journey, to the loneliness that a traveller can experience far away from home. Above all, their musical journey is a conversation between the sounds of their instruments, and the manifold vibrations of their strings, giving room for improvisations, and an exploration of the unknown.

In their musical encounter, musicians Ran Wang (guzheng) and Annette Bauer (sarode, recorders, duduk, tabor) travel the Silk Road from east to west. Their journey invites the audience to follow a geographical route from China to Italy via India, also weaving links between different historical periods by presenting music from the ancient Han dynasty (200 BC–9 AD) to music from the nascent European Renaissance in early 15th-century Italy.

The program is also inspired by the different physical and emotional landscapes that an imaginary traveler might encounter—from observing deeply moving beauty in unfamiliar landscapes to the audacity of a long journey, to the loneliness a traveler might feel far from home. Above all, their musical journey is a conversation between the sounds of their instruments and the multiple vibrations of their strings, leaving room for improvisation and exploration of the unknown.