15. June 2021
Omer Meir Wellber on BBC Radio 3 (June 2021)
Omer Meir Wellber with the BBC Philharmonic and soprano Claudia Barainsky performing Paul Ben-Haim’s “Pan.” Listen on BBC Radio 3 here.
28. May 2021
Omer Meir Wellber at the NDR Talkshow (May 2021)
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 Scholz.
The NDR Talk Show can be watched on NDR television and online here.
20. May 2021
Omer Meir Wellber in Vienna with audience (May 2021)
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
21. April 2021
The Music Room: Discovering Ben Haim with Omer Meir Wellber (April 2021)
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
20. April 2021
Omer Meir Wellber receives the special prize of the Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali (April 2021)
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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14. April 2021
Omer Meir Wellber with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (April 2021)
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
14. April 2021
BBC Music Magazine’s Premiere Award 2021 for “No longer mourn for me” with Omer Meir Wellber (April 2021)
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.
26. March 2021
Omer Meir Wellber receives the “Cielo D’Alcamo” literary prize (March 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.
17. March 2021
Omer Meir Wellber with the Filarmonica Toscanini and Avi Avital (March 2021)
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.
12. March 2021
Omer Meir Wellber with Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony in Palermo (March 2021)
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.