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Dorothee Fine

Dorothee Fine, born and raised in Berlin, began playing the violin at the age of six. After taking lessons while still in high school at the Berlin University of the Arts, where Koji Toyoda was her teacher, she studied with Klaus Maetzel at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. After further studies with Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Berlin University of the Arts, she graduated with a performance degree. She was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and also participated in master classes with Christian Tetzlaff, Régis Pasquier and Antje Weithaas. Since 2008 Dorothee Fine has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.

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Mette Tjærby Korneliusen

Mette Tjærby Korneliusen, born in Copenhagen in 1975, began playing the violin when she was four years old. She studied her instrument in Copenhagen and London. From 1994 to 1997 she was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the European Union Youth Orchestra. She is a founding member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2003. As a chamber musician, she has formed the Duo Mignon with pianist Mimi Kjær since 1993; she was also a violinist in the Helios Quartet for about ten years. Since 2011 she has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.

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Bettina Rühl

Bettina Rühl studied with Rainer Schmidt in Würzburg and Ingrid Philippi in Stuttgart. During this time, she was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and was an intern at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, also attending master courses with Serge Collot and Madeleine Prager, among others. She appeared as a chamber musician with the Trio Giocoso (viola clarinet, piano), the Ensemble Kontraste in Nürnberg and others. After five years as principal viola at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern, Bettina Rühl joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in 2001. She is a regular substitute at the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. She strives to perform musical rarities and to focus more on chamber music. Bettina Rühl is a sought-after chamber music partner, appearing regularly in the chamber music series of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra and with ensemble acht. In 2013 she joined her colleagues in recording the collected chamber music of Felicitas Kukuck. Since 2015 she has been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.

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Olivia Jeremias

Olivia Jeremias is one of the outstanding cellists of her generation. She began playing the instrument at the age of five. Taught by renowned cellists such as Peter Bruns, Colin Carr and Josephine Knight, she completed degrees at the Dresden Music Academy Carl Maria von Weber and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, both with honours. At the age of 20, she played the solo part in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto under the baton of Sir Colin Davis at Dresden’s Semper Opera, a performance also recorded for radio. She won international renown with a first prize at the Heran Competition in the Czech Republic and as a finalist in the Antonio Janigro Competition in Zagreb. In 2004 she received the Pierre Fournier Special Award. Olivia Jeremias appears regularly as a soloist with various orchestras, for example as the soloist in Tan Dun’s cello concerto “The Map” with the Essen Philharmonic. She has been invited to well-known festivals such as the Kilkenny Festival in Ireland, the Encuentro de Musica y Academia Festival in Santander, Spain, the Highgate Festival and Spitalfields Festival in London. In the summer 2004 she appeared at the Music at Menlo Festival in San Francisco, USA. In September 2005 Olivia Jeremias moved to Hamburg, where she holds the position of principal cellist of the Philharmonic State Orchestra.

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Felix von Werder

Felix von Werder was born in 1990, grew up in Kiel and started playing the double bass when he was seven. After influential years in the National Youth Orchestra of Germany, he began studying double bass right after graduating from secondary school in 2009; Ekkehard Beringer (NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra) was his teacher at the Hanover Academy of Music, Theatre and Media. His studies were complemented by master courses with Dorin Marc, Esko Laine and Nabil Shehata, among others. He also spent a year at the Janáček Academy in Brno, Czech Republic, in the class of Miloslav Jelínek. During his studies, Felix von Werder held a scholarship of the Joseph Joachim Academy of the NDR Radio Philharmonic. Even during his last year of studies, he received an engagement there for the 2017/18 season before joining the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in October 2018. He has played as a substitute in Göttingen and Kiel, at the Hanover and Braunschweig State Theatres and at the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. A sought-after and passionate chamber musician, his artistic collaboration with musicians such as Avi Avital is characterized by the wish to expand the double bass literature by unknown works, and to convey these to a larger audience. He finds educational work similarly important and therefore enjoys coaching youth orchestras, for example the Schleswig-Holstein State Youth Orchestra.

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Katarina Slavkovská

Katarina Slavkovská was born in 1999 in Poprad (Slovakia). She studied the flute with Václav Kunt at the Janáček-Academy in Brno (Czech Republic) and with Robert Winn at the Cologne University of Music. She gained orchestral experience with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the “European Union Youth Orchestra”, the “Brno Philharmonic”, the Orchestra of the National Theatre Brno amongst others. She was Solo-flautist in the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2022.
As Soloist, she participated in multiple international Competitions and received a variety of awards: 1st place “Leoš Janáček International Competition“ in Brno 2019, 1st place “International Woodwind Grandprix Competition“ in Varaždin 2019, 1st Place Cologne Hochschulwettbewerb 2021.
Katharina Slavkovská has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since the season of 2022/23.

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Minju Kim

Minju Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and has received bassoon lessons from when she was eleven years old. At the 73rd Prague Spring International Music Festival she won not only first place, but also five special awards. Additionally, she was the winner of the International Muri Competition, where she was also awarded the audience award.
Early on, she was awarded many first prices at prominent competitions in Korea, like for example the first price at the music competition of the newspaper Dong-a Ilbo, and the first price and the Head Mayor’s Award at the music competition of the TV-channel Busan MBC, amongst others.
Recently, she has played as a substitute with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Zürcher Symphoniker. She was also able to expand her orchestral experience during her internship with the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Furthermore, she took part in the Gstaad Menuhin Festival as the leader of woodwind instruments of the Amateur-Project Orchestra.
For her Bachelor’s, Minju Kim studied at Seoul National University. After that, she completed her MA at Zurich University of the Arts, where she is currently studying with Matthias Rácz in the course MA Specialized Music Performance – Soloist.
Minju Kim has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since the season of 2022/23.

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Patrick Hollich

Patrick Hollich learnt to play the clarinet with Prof. Anton Hollich, then studied at the Stuttgart University of Music and completed his master's degree at the Berlin University of the Arts. He won first national prizes at "Jugend musiziert" and has won several prizes at prestigious competitions, including the international Lions Club Competition, the 49th Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition in Berlin. From 2014 to 2015 he was a Karajan Foundation Academician with the Berliner Philharmoniker and since 2015 he has been Deputy Principal Clarinet of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.

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Kathrin Viergutz

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