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. It is the confirmation of the new profile, in the role of chief conductor and musical director, that we can no longer do without”