After a long time, Austria again opens its houses to the public and Omer Meir Wellber gives the first concert after a long time with the Wiener Symphoniker and Julian Rachlin. The program includes Prokofiev‘s Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 in g-minor and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor. The concert will be played a total of three times.READ MORE
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 on Twitter and Facebook. An IGTV video on Instagram will follow the next day.READ MORE
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”
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Omer Meir Wellber returns to Stockholm for a livestream concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The concert on 16 April at 7 p.m., which will be streamed live as concert video on Berwaldhallen Play and played on Swedish Radio P2, will feature Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Contrapunctus XIV from Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, Avner Dorman’s Mandolin Concerto with Jacob Reuven on mandolin, Aziza Sadikova’s Mirroring contrapunctus. Contrapunctus no. 12 and Sven David Sanström’s The hidden treasure: Contrapunktus 8 from Die Kunst der Fuge on the program, as well as Robert Schumann’s 4th Symphony in D minor.READ MORE
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 under the title “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” by BerlinVerlag in 2019.
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 for mandolin and orchestra.
19 March at 20:30
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052 (Version for mandolin and orchestra)
Dorman: Concerto for Mandolin
Strauss: Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin
The concert will be streamed live on the website www.fondazionetoscanini.it and on the Facebook, Vimeo and YouTube pages of La Toscanini. The concert stream will be available on the website and vimeo for one month and on Facebook for 48 hours.
On Saturday, 13 March at 8 pm, 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 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.
Read the issue with Omer Meir Wellber here.
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.