BERLIN, Germany — Two years ago, after he fled the Syrian civil war and settled in Germany as a refugee, bassoonist Ahmed Qafour figured he would never play alongside his countrymen again.
Qafour dropped out of the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus in 2012 because of the war. He arrived Germany in 2013 on the invitation of other Syrian musicians playing in the Young Euro Classic festival.
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