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JURY 2018 PRE-SELECTION JURY

Petru Munteanu

Igor Volochine

Takashi Shimizu Krzysztof Wegrzyn

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COMPETITION JURY Chairman, non-voting: Krzysztof Wegrzyn

Salvatore Accardo

Andrej Bielow

Masafumi Hori

Kyung Sun Lee

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COMPETITION JURY – CONTINUATION

Silvia Marcovici

Ulf Schneider

Vilmos Szabadi

Pavel Vernikov

Qian Zhou

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JURY FINAL ROUNDS

Tanja Dorn

Matthias Ilkenhans

Further information as well as CVs of the jury can be found on www.jjv-hannover.de/en/presse

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Petru Munteanu – Pre-Selection Jury

Educated in Bucarest, musician and teacher Petru Mun-teanu has lived in Germany since 1970. Petru Munteanu studied with George Manoliu and completed master classes with Juri Jankelevitsch and Michael Weiman. A lifelong artistic friendship with the distinguished Roma-nian violinist Stefan Gheorghiu has shaped him as well. Petru Munteanu was director of the Special Music School in Bucarest and taught at the Bucarest Music Col-lege. After moving to Germany he worked as professor for violin at the music colleges of Lübeck and Hamburg. Starting in 1994, as founding professor of the Rostock University of Music and Drama, he set up the string de-partment, the development of which he shaped until 2010. The German section of the European String Teachers Association (ESTA) elected him president from 2000 until 2004. Petru Munteanu’s concert activities as well as his publi-cations and lectures

have made him a musician of international repute who has been invited by various music colleges to give master classes all over the world. In 1986 he established the International Competition for Violin in Kloster Schöntal, the artistic director of which he remains to this day. Many of his students have become successful musicians. Petru Munteanu’s jury experience for international competitions is extensive. Starting in 2012, he has taught at the Leopold-Mozart-Center of the University of Augsburg. In 2014 he succeeded Julius Berger as artistic director of the International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart, where he served until 2017. Petru Munteanu is Professor h.c. at the University of Brasov (Romania). He has been honored by the Lithua-nian president with the highest order of the Republic of Lithuania.

Photocredit: © Christina Bleier

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Igor Volochine – Pre-Selection Jury

After completing his studies at the Tchaikovsky Conserva-toire of Moscow in the class of Semyon Snitkovsky, under the direction of David Oistrach, Igor Volochine began a brilliant career as solo violinist in the Collegium Musicum chamber orchestra. In his capacity of Concertmaster of the National Sym-phonic Orchestra of Moscow, Igor Volochine travelled throughout the world playing in the most prestigious con-cert halls, and took part in numerous recordings for rec-ords and television. In 1986 Yuri Bashmet invited him to join the Moscow So-loists Ensemble as a solo violinist. The Ensemble performed at Salle Pleyel, the Con-certgebouw, the Royal Albert Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Now living in France (since 1991), Igor Volochine is fre-quently invited to play in international festivals both as a

soloist and as a performer of chamber music. His pedagogical activity is rich and varied. From 1997 to 2013, he taught at the Conservatoire National Supé-rieur in Paris, as well at the National Regional Conservatoires in Paris and Versailles. He is now Professor at the École Normale A. Cortot in Paris. Additionally he gives proficiency courses and master classes in Italy, Japan, Taiwan.

Photocredit: © Benoit Legrande

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Takashi Shimizu – Pre-Selection Jury

Takashi Shimizu was born in Yokosuka, Japan. Having started playing the violin at the age of six, he won the biggest National Student Competition three years later in Japan. That same year he made his television debut, playing with the NHK Symphony Orchestra for the wedding celebration of H. I. M. Prince Hitachi. He became the focus of attention in Japan at the age of 17, after having won three first prizes at competi-tions. He then won a scholarship to study under Maes-tro Jascha Heifetz at the University of Southern Califor-nia in U.S.A. Subsequently, he also studied with Michèle Auclair and Yfrah Neaman. He then went on to win many top prizes in international violin competi-tions such as the Jacques Thibaud, Carl Flesch, Granada and the Queen Elisabeth. He debuted with Yehudi Menuhin and the Royal Phil-

harmonic Orchestra in Europe, followed by concerts with major orchestras around the world. He was also actively involved in chamber music, playing with Martha Argerich every year and collaborated with Fou Ts’ong, Ivry Gitlis, Bruno Canino, Yuri Bashmet, Mario Burnello, Alexander Rudin, Pavel Gililov, Misha Maisky, and others. He teaches at Tokyo University of Arts, Toho Gakuen College and Toho College of Music in Japan, and serves as a juror in competitions in and beyond Japan, including Joseph Joachim, Tchaikovsky, Queen Elisabeth, Long-Thibaud, Jean Sibelius, Paganini, and Fritz Kreisler.

Photocredit: © Takashi Shimizu

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Salvatore Accardo – Jury

Salvatore Accardo made his debut at 13 playing Paga-nini’s Capricci. Two years later he won the Geneva Competition and the Paganini Competition in Genoa. His repertoire ranges from pre-Bach to post-Berg; com-posers like Sciarrino, Donatoni, Piston, Piazzolla, Co-lasanti and Xenakis wrote for him. In addition to playing with the world’s leading orches-tras and conductors, Accardo plays recitals and partic-ularly loves chamber music. He founded the Accardo Quartet and the Walter Stauffer Academy. He also conducts opera – for the 200 th anniversary of Rossini’s birth, he conducted the first modern edition of the Messa di Gloria (recorded live), in Pesaro Festi-val and in Rome, which was repeated in Vienna with the Wiener Symphoniker. He has recorded for DGG, Philips, ASV, Dynamic, EMI, Sony Classical, Collins Clas-sic, and Foné.

He has been awarded the Abbiati Prize by the Italian Musical Critics for the exceptional standard of his playing and interpretation as well as the ‘Cavaliere di Gran Croce’, the highest honor of Italy. Beijing Conservatoire named him ‘Most Honourable Professor’, in Monaco he was named ‘Commandeur dans l’ordre du mérit culturel’ and he received ‘A Life for the Music’ Award and the Gold Medal in the Arts of the Kennedy Center of New York. Accardo created the ‘Orchestra da Camera Italiana’ with the best pupils of ‘Stauffer Academy’ and recorded with them all Paganini Concertos for violin (EMI Classics), the ‘Concerto per la Costituzione’ and the Piazzolla works for violin in 3 SACDs for Foné. He realized the second recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for violin, the third recording of Paganini’s 24 Capricci (Urtext) and the third recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with OCI (Urtext). He plays a violin by Guarneri del Gesù (‘Hart’ 1730).

Photocredit: © Marcella Cistola

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Andrej Bielow – Jury

Andrej Bielow received his first violin lessons at the age of five. Having recognized his talent, Prof. Michael Kuz-niezow took the eleven-year-old boy into his family and guided his further musical education. As a soloist he collaborated with such renowned or-chestras as the New Japan Philharmonic, Orchestra Na-tional de Radio France, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Sinfo-nieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Amadeus Chamber Orches-tra, and Münchener Kammerorchester under the ba-ton of established conductors such as Kurt Masur, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gianandrea Noseda, Miguel Gomez-Martinez, Christian Arming, Agnieszka Duczmal, Junichi Hirokami, Christoph Poppen, and Enrique Mazzola. He has devoted much of his career to chamber music, of which he is a passionate advocate. He has appeared at festivals as Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,

Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Music at Plush, Heidelberger Frühling, Niedersächsische Musiktage, and many others. At the Kronberg Academy he performed with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and the Beaux Arts Trio. Andrej Bielow won several major prizes at international competitions such as the Long-Thibaut Paris (2002), Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover (2000), and ARD Music Competition (1999). As a soloist and chamber musician he has recorded over 20 CD albums for Berlin Classics, Naxos, CPO, Avi-Music, Hänssler Classics, Hänssler-Profil, Guttingi, Solo Musica, Genuin, Hyperion and Rakete Media. From 2006 until 2014 Andrej Bielow joined the Szymanowski Quartet as first chair and taught violin at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since 2013, Andrej Bielow has become a regular visiting teacher delivering classes at the Royal Academy of Music in London. in 2014 he joined the violin faculty of University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as professor. In 2016 he became a Professor for Violin at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.

Photocredit: © Marco Borggreve

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Masafumi Hori – Jury

Masafumi Hori started playing the violin at the age of five. After graduating from Kyoto Municipal Horikawa Senior High School of Music, he moved to southern Ger-many to study at the University of Music Freiburg. Dur-ing this time he toured across Europe as a soloist of ‘En-semble Heidelberg’. In 1973, he played Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No.1 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. The fol-lowing year, he was named First Concertmaster of ‘Staatsorchester Darmstadt’. While performing throughout Europe with different orchestras, Hori ex-panded his activities as a soloist and chamber musician. His performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in 1979 brought him into the public spotlight. The same year, Hori became the orchestra’s concertmaster and has been leading it for the past 35 years. In 2015, he was also named Honorary Concertmaster. Hori is also an ac-

tive as soloist, gives recitals, and performs chamber music. For his dedication to the NHK Symphony Orchestra he received the Arima Prize. In addition to his performing career, he serves as a juror for numerous international competitions such as Geneva International Music Competition, International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart, and International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists. He is a Professor at the Toho Gakuen College of Music and at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Photocredit: © Masafumi Hori

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Kyung Sun Lee – Jury

Violinist Kyung Sun Lee captured sixth prize in the 1994 Tchaikovsky Competition, a bronze medal in the 1993 Queen Elizabeth Competition, first prizes of the Wash-ington and D’Angelo International Competitions, and third prize in the Montreal International Competition, where she also won the Audience Favorite and the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work prizes. Subsequent to winning these awards she has enjoyed ever-increasing popularity as a performer. Kyung Sun Lee has received high critical acclaim: “Exceptional to-nal suavity and expressive intensity in equal measure” commented The Strad. In addition to her busy schedule as soloist and chamber musician, Lee is an accom-plished teacher and mentor. After becoming Assistant Professor of Violin at the Oberlin Conservatory in the fall of 2001, and Associate Professor at the University of Houston in the fall of 2006, she is currently Professor at Seoul National University since 2009. She taught for

two summers at the Aspen Music Festival, and has also been involved with the Seattle and the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festivals, the Texas Music Festival, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea. Lee is a former member of the acclaimed KumHo/Asiana String Quartet, with whom she toured worldwide. In recent years she has also been in demand as a juror of violin competitions including the International Tibor Junior Competition in Switzerland, Seoul International Competition and the Siberia International Competition in Russia. Kyung Sun Lee studied at Seoul National University, Peabody Conservatory, and Juilliard. Her teachers have included Nam Yun Kim, Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann and Dorothy Delay. She plays a Joseph Guarnerius violin dating from 1723 and she is the artistic director of Changwon International Chamber Music Festival and Seoul Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.

Photocredit: © Kyung Sun Lee

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Silvia Marcovici – Jury

Silvia Marcovici, born in Romania, is one of the most re-nowned and highly regarded violinist of our times. A student of Professor Stefan Gheorghiu at the conserva-tory in Bucharest, she made her professional debut at the age of sixteen with the Residentie Orkest of The Hague under Bruno Maderna. A few years later she won first prize in the Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, the special prize of Prince Rainier of Monaco for the intepretation of a contemporary work and first prize in the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest. Since then, Marcovici has performed with leading or-chestras and celebrated conductors throughout Europe, Israel, Japan, North and South America. She appeared as a soloist with most of the world’s great orchestras, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philar-monic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Or-

chestre National de France, Orchestra della Scala di Milano, New York Philarmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philarmonic, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philarmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orches-tra, and others. Silvia Marcovici’s critically acclaimed recordings include the live performance of the Glazunov Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi, the Nielsen Violin Concerto with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montpellier under Yoël Levi and the Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin with Valentin Gheorghiu. The Canadian record company DOREMI has released several CDs and DVDs of live performances by Silvia Marcovici in its ‘Legendary Treasures’ series. Marcovici is currently a professor at the University of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.

Photocredit: © Silvia Marcovici

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Qian Zhou – Jury

Chinese-born American Qian Zhou is recognized inter-nationally as a violinist, recording artist and teacher of the first rank. After achieving great success at the Mar-guerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competi-tion where she was awarded the First Grand Prize and all five major prizes, she has been a frequent recitalist and soloist with orchestras in Europe, United States, Asia and Africa. Qian Zhou has enjoyed successful artistic collabora-tions with many of the world’s great orchestras includ-ing all the Baltimore Symphony, BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish, Bournemouth Symphony, China National Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre Phil-harmonique de Radio France, Lisbon Metropolitan Or-chestra, Limburgs Symfonie Orkest, National Orches-tra of Ile de France, New Japan Philharmonic, Osaka Symphony, Rome Symphony, Russian Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, Spanish

National, Taipei Symphony and the Vienna Chamber Orchestras among others while recital highlights include performances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Vienna Concert Hall. Qian Zhou has made ten CDs with the labels Naxos, Hugo, and Hungaraton. Her recording of the Beethoven concerto was described by Henry Roth in The Strad as “technically impeccable … burnished with beautifully-focused tone, a vibrato that spans the full gamut of colour, and an astute sense of pacing, all replete with sensitive nuances.” In 2003, she became the founding Head of Strings at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Qian Zhou is currently the Chair of the artist committee and jury of Singapore International Violin Competition and Artistic Director of Singapore Violin Festival. Qian Zhou plays a 1757 J.B. Guadagnini, generously loaned by the late Mr. Rin Kei Mei and Mrs. Rin Kei Mei.

Photocredit: © Qian Zhou

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Ulf Schneider – Jury

Ulf Schneider studied with Jens Ellermann in Hanover, with Felix Galimir and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School in New York, and with Thomas Zehetmair in Berlin. He received a stipend from the German Aca-demic Scholarship Foundation. He won the first price in Berlin ‘Hochschulwettbewerb’ and was awarded the ‘Kunstpreis’ of Kassel. Together with Martin Löhr, cello, and Eckart Heiligers, piano, he founded the internationally acclaimed Trio Jean Paul. The ensemble was awarded first prizes and several special prizes at the international chamber music competitions in Melbourne and Osaka as well as at the German Music Competition in Bonn. For over 20 years, Ulf Schneider has been active as an internationally renowned violinist, playing at famous concert halls and festivals on all five continents.

His efforts as an ensemble musician connect him with the Trio Jean Paul, the Bartholdy Quintet, and his duo partners Stephan Imorde and Jan Philip Schulze. He is often part of theme programs, especially those joining music and literature. Schneider’s artistic activities also include collaborations with contemporary composers. In 2015, he premi-ered Wolfgang Rihm’s Trio Concerto at Berliner Philharmonie and subsequently performed the work with the WDR-Sinfonieorchester, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hanover, and the Ton-halle Orchestra Zurich. Since 2001, Ulf Schneider has been a professor at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Many of his students are prize-winners of national and international competitions, members of leading European orchestras, teachers at German music conservatories, and chamber musicians in renowned ensembles. Ulf Schneider is regularly invited to teach master classes and to serve as a juror in national and international competitions.

Photocredit: © Irène Zandel

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Vilmos Szabadi – Jury

Vilmos Szabadi is an internationally renowned virtuoso, winner of numerous prizes, and head of the violin de-partment at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Bu-dapest. In 2018, he received the highest musical honor of Hungary – the Bartók-Pásztory Award. Vilmos Sza-badi is a double prize winner of the prestigious Midem-Festival in Cannes (1999 and 2002) and has won nu-merous other awards, including Prima Musician of the Year (2012), Hungaroton (1999), and the Franz Liszt Prize awarded by the Hungarian government. He was the first prize winner of the 1982 Hungarian Radio Vio-lin Competition and of the 1983 Hubay Competition, and the third prize winner of the 1985 Jean Sibelius competition in Finland. Vilmos Szabadi regularly teaches master classes in Aus-tria, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Finland, and the USA. His international career as a violinist took off after Sir Georg Solti invited him to perform Bartók’s second Vi-olin Concerto during the Bartók Festival at London’s

Royal Festival Hall. The great success of the performance led to invitations by the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, and many other leading orchestras across the globe. Szabadi has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, from the far East to the Northern countries and South America. Until today, he has recorded 59 CDs and LPs under different labels. Szabadi was among the musicians invited by Prince Charles to perform at Buckingham Palace in honor of Sir Georg Solti’s 80th birthday. He is regularly invited as a juror of internationally renowned violin compe-titions, such as those held in Singapore and Hanover, Germany. Vilmos Szabadi initiated the first Bartók Violin Com-petition in Hungary in 2017. He plays a violin by Laurentius Storioni (Cremona, 1778).

Photocredit: © Arpad Kurucz

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Pavel Vernikov – Jury

Pavel Vernikov, a student of David Oistrach and Semyon Snitkowsky, gained a reputation as virtuoso violinist more than twenty years ago. Among other prizes he won the International ARD Violin Competition in Mu-nich and the Grand Prix at the International Violin Com-petition ‘Vittorio Gui’ in Florence. He has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Concertgebouw in Am-sterdam, Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, La Salle Gaveau in Paris, La Scala in Milan and Santa Cecilia in Rome. For the last 30 years he has been a member of the Tchaikovsky Trio. Vernikovs artistic partners have in-cluded Sviatoslav Richter, James Galway, Alain Meunier, Oleg Kagan, Patrick Gallois, Maria Tipo, Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, Elisso Virsaladze and Anthony Pay. He in-augurated the ‘Russian Academy of Higher Learning’ in Portogruaro and was the Artistic Director of the Gubbio Music Festival, the Dubrovnik Chamber Music Festival and the Eilat Chamber Music Festival.

He teaches and gives master classes around the world, in Italy, France, Finland, Spain (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia Madrid), Israel (Rubin Academy), Germany (Kronberg Academy), etc. and has been invited to be a member of the jury at international competitions (Szigeti, Kreisler, Gui, ARD, Sendai, Budapest, Sara-sate, Wieniawski). Pavel Vernikov has recorded for RCA, Ondine and Dynamic. He was Professor at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon. At present he’s Professor at Konservatorium Wien and at Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (Site de Sion). In 2013 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Sion Festival in Swit-zerland. He plays a violin by G. B. Guadagnini (Milano 1751), owned by the family of Tibor Varga.

Photocredit: © Pavel Vernikov

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Tanja Dorn – Jury Final Round

Tanja Dorn studied the piano with Annerose Schmidt at Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin, where she received her master’s degree in piano perfor-mance, chamber music, and piano pedagogy. She was nominated as the first student board member of the Academy’s Friends and Supporters Foundation. In this capacity, she founded Europe’s first student concert agency, ‘Eisleriana’, and initiated a biannual fundrais-ing concert series in collaboration with Germany’s Ministry of Economics. As a performing pianist, she has served as an ambassador to her hometown, Mainz, and has performed throughout Europe, including her orchestral debut at the Great Hall of the Berlin Phil-harmonie. Tanja Dorn moved to New York in 2003 and first served as Artistic Director of ›Klavierhaus‹, where she produced over 50 recitals showcasing young artists. She then moved on to be an Associate Manager at Co-lumbia Artists Inc., where she worked with an exten-

sive roster of top performing artists. Shortly after founding Tanja Dorn Artist Management in New York while simultaneously running the office of Sir André Previn, Tanja was recruited by IMG Artists to serve as Vice President in their New York office. Subsequently she was made Associate Director for North/South Amer-ica/Germany of the conductor and soloists department. In 2009 she moved back to Germany to oversee the establishing of the German branch office in Hannover where she served as Director and Procurist. In January 2016 Tanja Dorn founded the global artist management agency Dorn Music. The agency offers complete management support at the highest level with a dedicated individual approach to developing a healthy, long term career for each performing artist. Additionally the agency has been producing music films and concerts at acclaimed international venues including a sold out concert on the main stage of Carnegie Hall in New York. The Young Artists Foundation, a nonprofit organization, conceived and spearheaded by Dorn, was launched in late 2016. In January 2018 Dorn Music, LLC was founded and a New York office was established.

Photocredit: © Peter Rigaud

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Matthias Ilkenhans – Jury Final Round

Matthias Ilkenhans was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1968 and grew up in Bad Homburg. He initially studied Orchestral Music, majoring in Violin, in Stuttgart, Saarbrücken and Munich, followed by a degree in Cul-tural Management at the University of Hagen. From 1994 to 2000 he was a member of the ensemble of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Young German Philharmonic Orchestra) in Frankfurt, first as a violin-ist and later as project manager. After a year as Pro-ject Manager with the Munich Chamber Orchestra he returned to the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie as General Manager in 2001. Since the 2004/2005 concert season Matthias Ilken-hans has been Manager of the NDR Radiophilhar-monie.

Photocredit: © Micha Neugebauer

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