As part of the 2021 summer season, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the ballet Giselle with music by Adolphe Adam at the Teatro di Verdura on 29 and 30 July. The performance is a tribute to Italian dancer Carla Fracci, who was best known for her interpretations of romantic ballets, including the title role in …
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On Sunday, 9 July Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the Orchestra di Teatro Massimo at Teatro di Verdura in Palermo. With pianist Daniel Ciobanu, mezzosoprano Natalia Gavrilan and the choir of the Teatro Massimo, the program will include works by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev. Sunday, 4 July 2021 at 09:15 pm CET at Teatro di VerduraTeatro …
On 28 May at 10:00 p.m. German time, Omer Meir Wellber will be a guest on the NDR Talk Show. Moderated by Barbara Schöneberger and Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, the guests will include actress Maria Furtwängler, comedian Bastian Pastewka, author Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen, singer Gil Ofarim, historian Sophie von Bechtolsheim and SPD candidate for chancellor Olaf …
On 12 May at 7:30 pm UK time, the BBC Philharmonic with their Chief Conductor, Omer Meir Wellber, present a programme with two symphonies by Joseph Haydn, No.s 34 and 46. They are joined by pianist Daniel Ciobanu for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 (K488). Haydn: Symphony No. 34Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 (K 488)Haydn: …
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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 Omer Meir Wellber and different guests from various points of view. The episodes can be viewed via the BBC Philharmonic website, or …
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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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