Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Slow Burn

Paula Iniesta

Charlotte Kragh

Charlotte Larzelere

Daniele Bonelli

Jack Bruce

Francesco Cortese

Blake Works V (The Barre Project)

Olivia Betteridge

Futaba Ishizaki

Soloist

Futaba Ishizaki

BORN
28.9.1993 in Tokyo. Japanese

EDUCATION
Yamaji Rumiko Ballet School (Tokio)
Ballettschule des Hamburg Ballett

MAIN TEACHERS
Rumiko Yamaji, Akiko Sano, Carolina Borrajo, Marianne Kruuse, Kevin Haigen

ENGAGEMENTS
Hamburg Ballet 2011-2017
Houston Ballet 2016/2017
Hungarian National Ballet 2017-2020
Ballett am Rhein 2020-2024
Hamburg Ballet since 2024

CREATIONS IN HAMBURG
A figure from the romantic novels Tatiana loves to read in "Tatiana" (John Neumeier)

IN DUSSELDORF
Giselle in "Giselle" (Demis Volpi)
A women in "From time to time" (John Neumeier)
Emilie in "Baal" (Aszure Barton)
Coppélia in "CoppéliaX Machina" (Hélène Blackburn)

and solos in

Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Demis Volpi)
The thing with feathers (Demis Volpi)
A kiss to the world (Dominique Dumias)

REPERTORY IN BUDAPEST
Tamara in "Chroma" (Wayne McGregor)
Magda in "Merry Widow" (Ronald Hynd)

and solos in

Falling Angels (Jiří Kylián)
Bedroom Folk(Sharon Eyal)
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
Etudes (Harald Lander)
5 Tangos (Hans Van Mannen)
Episode 31 (Alexander Ekman)
Troy Game (Robert North)
The Nutcracker (Wayne Eagling)

REPERTORY IN DUSSELDORF
Carmen in "Carmen" (Roland Petit)
The Novice in "The Cage" (Jerome Robbins)
The Pupil in "The Lesson" (Flemming Flindt)
The Kantorka in "Krabat" (Demis Volpi)
Gina in "Geschlossene Spiele" (Demis Volpi)
The Maid in "The Nutcracker" (Demis Volpi)

and solos in

Allure (Demis Volpi)
Winter (Demis Volpi)
Aus ihrer Zeit (Demis Volpi)
Little Monsters (Demis Volpi)
Elegie (Demis Volpi)
Ebony Concerto (Demis Volpi)
A simple piece (Demis Volpi)
One and others (Demis Volpi)
Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)
The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)
Rubies (George Balanchine)
Artifact II (William Forsythe)
Enemy in the Figure (William Forsythe)

REPERTORY IN HAMBURG
Quadrille in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Helena in "Romeo and Juliet"
Zulma in "Giselle"
The foreign Princess in "A Cinderella Story"
Louise, Pas de huit and The Beautiful Girl from Granada in "The Nutcracker"
Aschenbach's Concepts in "Death in Venice"
Pas de six in "Napoli" (Auguste Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Blanche Ingram in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)

and solos in

Préludes CV
Petruschka Variations
La Vivandière (Pierre Lacotte after Arthur Saint-Léon)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Variations for Two Couples (Hans van Manen)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)

GUESTING
Nijinsky Gala XLVII (Hamburg 2022)
Internationale Ballett-TanzGala (Augusburg 2024)

AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2009
The International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize 2015

Stücke

The Times Are Racing
Jane Eyre
Slow Burn
Der Nussknacker
Tod in Venedig

Xue Lin

Principal

Xue Lin

BORN
9.11.91 in Beijing. Chinesin

EDUCATION
Beijing Dance Academy
The School of the Hamburg Ballet

MAIN TEACHERS
Yuanmei Cai, Kevin Haigen, Marianne Kruuse

ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2011, Soloist since 2016, Principal since 2022

CREATIONS
The Ballerina Istomina as Cleopatra in "Tatiana"
A Mystic in "Dona Nobis Pacem"

and solos in

Meine Vorstellung von der Wirklichkeit (Braulio Alvarez)
3x2 für M&M (Constant Vigier)
Mizaru – Kikazaru – Iwazaru (Miljana Vracaric)
Into this Wild Abyss (Braulio Alvarez)
Meant to Fly (Winnie Dias)
At Asyl-Um (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)

REPERTORY
Odette, Princess Claire and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Rosalind and Emilia in "Romeo and Juliet"
Silvia in "Préludes CV"
The Little Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid"
La Primavera in "Othello"
Moyna and Zulma in "Giselle"
Manon Lescaut and Olympia in "Lady of the Camellias"
Louise, La Fille du Pharaon, The Chinese Bird and Pas de huit in "The Nutcracker"
La Barbarina and Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother in "Death in Venice"
The Ballerina, Tamara Karsavina in "Nijinsky"
Masha in "The Seagull"
Woman I in "Bernstein Dances"
Anna Karenina and Lidia Ivanovna in "Anna Karenina"
Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Princess Florine, The Rose and Aurora, the Dawn in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Pallas Athene in "Odyssey"
Pas de six in "Napoli" (August Bournonville / Lloyd Riggins)
Olga in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Amor and a Friend in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Princess Perdita in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)

and solos in

Préludes CV
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Saint Matthew Passion
Messiah
The Song of the Earth
Turangalîla
Bach Suite 2
Nocturnes
Dialogue
Kinderszenen
Shall we dance?
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Broadway's Pavlova
At Midnight
Epilogue
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
Variations for Two Couples (Hans van Manen)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)

GUESTING
The Little Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid" with the National Ballet of China in Wuhan, China

AWARD
Dr.-Wilhelm-Oberdörffer Prize 2014

Stücke

The Times Are Racing
Epilog
Slow Burn
Der Nussknacker
Tod in Venedig

Madoka Sugai

Ana Torrequebrada

Gabriel Barbosa

Daniele Bonelli

Jack Bruce

Christopher Evans

Principal

Christopher Evans

BORN
2.11.94 in Loveland, CO. American

EDUCATION
BalletMet Dance Academy
Canada's National Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet

MAIN TEACHERS
Susan Dromisky, Alexander Gorbatsevich, Kevin Haigen

ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2012, Soloist 2015, Principal since 2018

CREATIONS
Jim O'Connor in "The Glass Menagerie"
A Mystic in "Dona Nobis Pacem"

and solos in

Turangalîla
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Epilogue
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Metamorphosis (Marc Jubete)
Beautiful Soul (Marcelino Libao)

REPERTORY
The King, Count Alexander and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Benvolio and Antonio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Fabian in "VIVALDI or What you will"
Albrecht in "Giselle"
Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Vladimir Lensky in "Tatjana"
The Prince and A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
Armand Duval and Des Grieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Man I in "Bernstein Dances"
Gustav von Aeschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet 21"
Love/Thyrsis/Orion in "Sylvia"
Catalabutte in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Neufassung 2021)
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in "Endstation Sehnsucht"
Odysseus in *Odyssey"
Alexei Karenin and Levin in "Anna Karenina"
Mann in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Basil in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Prince Florizel in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
St John Rivers in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)

and solos in

Préludes CV
Petrushka-Variations
Christmas Oratorio I-VI
The Song of the Earth
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
At Midnight
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)

HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Soul Sketch"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"A Cosmic Second"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017

AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2010
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2015

Stücke

The Times Are Racing
Endstation Sehnsucht
Die Glasmenagerie
Jane Eyre
Epilog
Slow Burn
Der Nussknacker
Tod in Venedig

Bruno Garibaldi

Evan L'Hirondelle

Aleix Martínez

Principal

Aleix Martínez

BORN
17.5.92 in Barcelona. Spanish

EDUCATION
Escuela Ballet David Campos
Studio Ballet Colette Armand, Marseille
The School of the Hamburg Ballet

MAIN TEACHERS
David Campos, Peter Lewton, Patrick Armand, Kevin Haigen

ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2010. Soloist in 2014, Principal since 2021

CREATIONS
Louis in "Liliom"
Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin in "Anna Karenina"
HE in "Dona Nobis Pacem"

and solos in

Purgatorio
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven-Projekt II
Epilogue
Vor dem Gestz (Alban Pinet)
3x2 für M&M (Constant Vigier)
Happy Valentine (Orcan Dann)
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Soledad en Compañía (Aleix Martínez)
Countdown (Sasha Riva)

REPERTORY
The Hermit in "Parzival – Episodes und Echo »
Vaslav Nijinsky and Stanislav Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Vaslav Nijinsky as a student in "Le Pavillon d'Armide"
The Speaker in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
William in "As You Like It"
A young Aschenbach in "Death in Venice"
A Soldier (Moresca Dance) in "Othello"
Peasant Pas de deux in "Giselle"
Peer's Aspect – Innocence in "Peer Gynt"
A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Fritz in "The Nutcracker"
a man in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Man III in "Bernstein Dances"
A Thorn in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Mann in Brick in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
A Gypsy in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)

and solos in

Préludes CV
Vaslav
Kinderszenen
Winterreise
Messiah
Saint Matthew Passion
The Song of the Earth
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Blake Works V – The Barre Project (William Forsythe)

HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Ne Nehledej"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2011
"Trencadís"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2012
"Soledad en Compañía..."
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2015
"Kleines Requiem"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016

AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2008
Premio Positano Léonide Massine 2008
Amigo de Honor 2010, awarded by the Casa de la Danza, Madrid
Promising Young Talent 2012 – "tanz" magazine
Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize 2013

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Epilog
Slow Burn

Louis Musin

Matias Oberlin

João Santana

Conductor

Simon Hewett

Conductor

Simon Hewett

Simon Hewett is the Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Opera, and Principal Conductor of the Hamburg Ballet. In addition to his commitments with these two companies, he has performed regularly in recent seasons with Opera Australia in Sydney and Melbourne, the Komische Oper in Berlin, and the Paris Opera Ballet. His performances are frequently praised for their stylistic fluency, emotional intensity and technical precision.

Simon Hewett studied clarinet and conducting at the University of Queensland, graduating with First Class Honours and a University Medal. At 19 he was the youngest ever finalist in the ABC Young Conductor of the Year Award, and conducted the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Hindemith's "Symphonische Metamorphosen". In 1998 he was awarded a German Government Scholarship and studied operatic and symphonic conducting for 3 years at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany.

From 2002-03 Simon Hewett was a member of Opera Australia's Young Artists' Programme, and made his debut at the Sydney Opera house in October 2003, conducting Bizet's "Les Pêcheurs du perles". He was immediately reengaged for performances of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" in 2004. He has since returned regularly to Opera Australia as a guest conductor, for "Tosca" (2005), "Turandot" (2006), and to lead the revival of Harry Kupfer's critically acclaimed production of "Otello" (2008). He returned to Sydney in 2009 for "Aida" and a new production of "Così fan tutte" with director Jim Sharman. In 2011 he conducted "Macbeth" for Opera Australia and "Falstaff" for the West Australian Opera. In 2012 he led critically acclaimed new productions of "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Salome" for Opera Australia.

In 2005 Simone Young invited Simon Hewett to join the Hamburg State Opera as Resident Conductor and Assistant Music Director. Since his debut with "La Traviata" in 2005, he has conducted over 200 performances in Hamburg of a large repertoire of opera and ballet. In 2008 he debuted at the Komische Oper with "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", returning in 2010 for "Die Entführung aus dem Serail".

Following successful performances of "Der Fliegende Holländer" for the Stuttgart Opera in 2010, Simon Hewett was invited to become Principal Conductor. In 2012/13 he led revivals of "Die Fledermaus" and "Tosca". He has since conducted new productions of "La Bohème" and "Khovanshchina", and a wide range of other repertoire in Stuttgart including "Die Fledermaus", "Nabucco", "Tosca", "Madama Butterfly", "Eugene Onegin" and "Der Freischütz".

As a symphonic conductor Simon Hewett has appeared with the Melbourne Symphony, Sydney Symphony and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. His interest in contemporary music is documented through his long relationship with the Elision Contemporary Music Ensemble, with whom he has performed frequently since 1996, touring with them to Korea in 1997 and Europe in 1998. He has performed with Elision at all of Australia's major festivals, conducting the world premieres of Richard Barrett's "Opening of the Mouth", and Liza Lim's opera "Moon Spirit Feasting". His CD of Richard Barrett's "Opening of the Mouth" with the Elision Ensemble was reviewed by the BBC Music Magazine upon its release as "Pick of the Month".

Since conducting the premiere of John Neumeier's "Parzival" at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in 2006, Simon Hewett has enjoyed a close and productive collaboration with the Hamburg Ballet. He has toured with the Hamburg Ballet to the Salzburg Festival, Australia, the United States of America and Japan. His performances of John Neumeier's production of Mahler's 3rd Symphony at the Paris Opera were broadcast in cinemas worldwide and recorded for DVD release. He led the world premiere of John Neumeier's ballet "Tatiana" (2014), also recorded for DVD release, and the premiere of a new ballet based on the life of the celebrated Italian actress Eleonora Duse (2015). In December 2016 he will lead the German Premiere of "The Song of the Earth", a ballet by John Neumeier to music by Gustav Mahler.

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Slow Burn

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.

During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.

Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.

The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.

In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.

The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.

Stücke

Rathausmarkt Open Air
1. Akademiekonzert - Programm I
1. Akademiekonzert - Programm II
1. Akademiekonzert - Programm III
4. Akademiekonzert
Trionfi
Carmen
The Times Are Racing
1. Philharmonisches Konzert
Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna
Boris Godunow
Sonderkammerkonzert
Tosca
Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
La clemenza di Tito
Orchesterprobenbesuch
2. Philharmonisches Konzert
Don Giovanni
Jane Eyre
3. Philharmonisches Konzert
Elektra
Der Freischütz
Luisa Miller
La Bohème
Slow Burn
4. Philharmonisches Konzert
Hänsel und Gretel
Die Zauberflöte
Der Nussknacker
Silvesterkonzert
Der fliegende Holländer
5. Philharmonisches Konzert
Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs
Ariadne auf Naxos
Manon
6. Philharmonisches Konzert
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Mitridate, re di Ponto
Eugen Onegin
7. Philharmonisches Konzert
PhiSch - das Staatsorchester hautnah...
Don Pasquale
Rigoletto
Maria Stuarda
La Fanciulla del West
Il trovatore
Falstaff
8. Philharmonisches Konzert
La Traviata
Odyssee
Parsifal
Pique Dame
Eröffnungskonzert Internationales Musikfest Hamburg
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
Romeo und Julia
Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
Tristan und Isolde
9. Philharmonisches Konzert
Salome
Bundesjugendballett
Nijinsky
Frühlings Erwachen
Così fan tutte
Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Philharmonisches Konzert
Demian
Nijinsky-Gala L

photo: Foto: Felix Broede

Cast

Paula Iniesta

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Charlotte Kragh

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Charlotte Larzelere

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Daniele Bonelli

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Jack Bruce

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Francesco Cortese

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Olivia Betteridge

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Futaba Ishizaki

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Xue Lin

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Madoka Sugai

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Ana Torrequebrada

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Gabriel Barbosa

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Daniele Bonelli

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Jack Bruce

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Christopher Evans

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Bruno Garibaldi

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Evan L'Hirondelle

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Aleix Martínez

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Louis Musin

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Matias Oberlin

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João Santana

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Simon Hewett

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Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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