Omer Meir Wellber – Debut with the Munich Philharmonic (November 2019)

Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut with the Munich Philharmonic on 21, 22 and 24 November 2019. Below you will find the programme of the concerts:

21, 22, 24 November Munich, Philharmonie
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 49
Adler: Alone, I return from the Night – Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Sarah-Jane Brandon – soprano, Katija Dragojevic – mezzo-soprano, Martin Mitterrutzner – Tenor, Ain Anger – Bass
Hila Baggio – Soprano
Philharmonic Choir Munich

Further information about the concerts can be found here.

Omer Meir Wellber conducts premiere (November 2019)

Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Dresden

On 3 November, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the premiere of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Dresden. The co-production with the Teatro Real in Madrid will be directed by Spanish opera director Calixto Bieito. Further performances will take place on 7, 13, 26 and 28 November.

Find more information here.

Literary debut of Omer Meir Wellber (October 2019)

Poetic, political, wild…Today “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” by conductor Omer Meir Wellber is published!

Chaim Birkner is 108 years old and the oldest man in Israel. He came to Israel in 1944 and since then he has been lying his way through life, avoiding everything and everyone. His neglected daughter Sharon of all people forces him to face life at least once.

Find more information here!

“Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” by Omer Meir Wellber (September 2019)

On 14 October 2019 the conductor Omer Meir Wellber will publish his literary debut “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner”, which will be published in German by BerlinVerlag.  Learn more about the book here!

“Chaim Birkner is 108 years old, the oldest man in Israel. But he’s not celebrating, he decides to move back to Hungary, the country he fled, into his parents‘ apartment in Budapest he could never sell. That’s where his father and he “rescued” two Torah roles from the synagogue, that’s where he grew up with the
neighbour girl Leon, the yellow tree, the sordid dealings of his father …
Ever since he came to Israel in 1944 he has been lying his way through life, avoiding everything and everyone. Of all people it is, now, his neglected daughter Sharon who forces him to face life at least once… This is the novel of a tired and desperate man, confronting us with a history of Israel nobody ever dares to tell.”

Video livestream: Omer Meir Wellber and the BBC Philharmonic (September 2019)

Please join us today at 4:30 pm (UK time) for Omer Meir Wellber‘s concert as newly appointed Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, the home of the orchestra, and experience a unique adaptation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (2. Summer) with mandolinist Jacob Reuven and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 directed from the piano by Wellber with an interesting twist: improvising the cadenzas with musicians from the orchestra as well as for Schumann and Schönberg.

Watch the worldwide livestream today at 4.30 p.m. (UK time) here or www.bbc.co.uk/philharmonic as well as on MediaCityUK big outdoor screen; catch-up stream also viewable any time after that.

Klassik-Pop-et cetera with Omer Meir Wellber (August 2019)

On the microphone – Conductor Omer Meir Wellber

“I was always afraid of Don Giovanni because I didn’t understand the conclusions exactly,” says Omer Meir Wellber. The chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic describes how he overcame his fear of Mozart’s opera in Klassik-Pop-et cetera.

You can listen to the programme here until Friday 23 August.

Omer Meir Wellber on tour with Hilary Hahn and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (August 2019)

Omer Meir Wellber will conduct works by i.a. Bach and Schubert together with violinist Hilary Hahn and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at various renowned festivals in Germany, Spain and Switzerland.

Concert dates and further information:

22 August Kloster Eberbach, Basilika Rheingau Musik Festival
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Bach: selected chorales
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 E major
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 D Major D 200
Hilary Hahn – Violin

23 August Lübeck, Musik- und Kongresshalle Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Otto: Contrapunctus I (Orchestration of Contrapunctus I from Bach’s “Die Kunst der Fuge” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor
Sadikova: Mirroring Contrapunctus for orchestra (orchestration of the Contrapunctus XII from Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 E major
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 D Major D 200
Hilary Hahn – Violin

24 August Flensburg, Deutsches Haus Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Otto: Contrapunctus I (Orchestration of Contrapunctus I from Bach’s “Die Kunst der Fuge” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor
Sadikova: Mirroring Contrapunctus for orchestra (orchestration of the Contrapunctus XII from Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 E major
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 D Major D 200
Hilary Hahn – Violin

27 August San Sebastián, Kursaal Auditorium San Sebastián Festival
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Otto: Contrapunctus I (Orchestration of Contrapunctus I from Bach’s “Die Kunst der Fuge” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor
Sadikova: Mirroring Contrapunctus for orchestra (orchestration of the Contrapunctus XII from Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 E major
Schubert: Symphony No. 4
Hilary Hahn – Violin

29 August Gstaad, Kirche Saanen Gstaad Festival
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Bach: selected chorales
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 E major
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 D Major D 200
Hilary Hahn – Violin

31 August Redefin, Landgestüt Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Otto: Contrapunctus I (Orchestration of Contrapunctus I from Bach’s “Die Kunst der Fuge” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 A minor
Sadikova: Mirroring Contrapunctus for orchestra (orchestration of the Contrapunctus XII from Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue” BWV 1080)
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 E major
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 D Major D 200
Hilary Hahn – Violin

Omer Meir Wellber – BBC Proms Concerts – Press and Stream on Demand (August 2019)

Omer Meir Wellber’s concerts at the BBC Proms as the new Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic were praised highly by the British Press.

Thanks to BBC Radio 3, the broadcast of those concerts can still be listened to online for another two and three weeks.

Prom 7:
23 July – London, Royal Albert Hall – BBC Proms
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 KV 450
Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1
Schönberg: Fünf Orchesterstücke op. 16
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Yeol Eum Son – Piano
stream on demand until 21 August

Prom 14:
29 July – London, Royal Albert Hall – BBC Proms
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn: The Creation
Sarah-Jane Brandon – Sopran, Benjamin Hulett – Tenor, Christoph Pohl – Bariton
BBC Proms Youth Choir
stream on demand until 27 August

Omer Meir Wellber’s live stream on BBC Radio 3 (July 2019)

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— BBC Philharmonic (@BBCPhilharmonic) July 23, 2019