The Music Room continues! After exploring Beethoven with The Music Room: Reflecting Beethoven (2020), now follows The Music Room: Discovering Ben-Haim. On four dates, the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim will be discussed by the Omer Meir Wellber and different guests from various points of view. The episodes can be viewed via the BBC Philharmonic website, …
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Omer Meir Wellber, Music Director of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, receives the special prize of the Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali. The jury’s reasons: “[…] after months of silence, homages to Beethoven and a surprise evening of jazz, shone in the empty church of the Spasimo, where the versatile fantasist Wellber played accordion and piano. …
On 16 April, Omer Meir Wellber leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Swedish premiere of Sven-David Sandström’s The Hidden Treasure: Contrapunctus 8, a free orchestration of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge. Additionally, two further interpretations will be performed, Ella Milch-Sheriffs Contrapunctus XIV and Aziza Sadikova‘s Mirroring Contrapunctus 12. For Avner Dorman’s Mandolin Concerto …
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Hyperion’s recording of works by John Tavener with Stefen Isserlis, Omer Meir Wellber, Matthew Rose and the Philharmonia Orchestra “Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello” won the BBC Music Magazine’s Premiere Award 2021.
Omer Meir Wellber receives the literary prize “Cielo D’Alcamo” in the category “Premio Speciale Internazionale” for his novel “Storia vera e non vera di Chaim Birkner”, which was published in January 2021 by the Italian publishing house Sellerio Editore. On 25 March, the award ceremony of the literary prize took place. The novel was published …
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On Friday, 19 March at 20:30 Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma with a program of works by Beethoven, Dorman and Strauss. With mandolinist Avi Avital and himself on the harpsichord, he will present Dorman’s Concerto for Mandolin and and Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052, adapted …
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On Saturday, 13 March, a concert with Omer Meir Wellber conducting Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo will be available via stream. The concert will be available on 13 March at 8 pm on Teatro Massimo’s WebTV and YouTube channel.
Omer Meir Wellber is the focus of the second issue of the new magazine #Sharp, founded in 2021. In a conversation with director Johannes Erath, with whom he staged the innovative production “Twilight of Dreams” (“Il crepuscolo dei sogni”) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in January, he explains why this production is so special …
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Under the musical direction of Omer Meir Wellber and the direction of Gianmaria Aliverta, the Teatro Massimo presents “Torneranno i at momenti”, an opera-film based on the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy, on March 4,5 and 6. The production is specially designed for the Teatro’s youngest audience . More information can be found here.
Omer Meir Wellber and Axel Brüggemann can now be heard in conversation in the podcast “Brüggemanns Begegnungen – das etwas andere Klassik-Gespräch mit Axel Brüggemann.” The podcast is presented by Klassik Radio. Now available on Spotify.
