Also this year, cellist Jan Vogler led the workshop Meisterschüler Meister at Schloss Neuhardenberg with a final concert at Schinkelkirche Neuhardenberg.
Within the Meisterschüler Meister program, young musical talents are accompanied and supported by experienced musicians as an important part of their career path.
See here some photo impressions:
On Thursday, 2 August Austrian Manfred Honeck will conduct a Concert for Peace (1918-2018) in the Stephansdom in Vienna. He will lead the European Union Youth Orchestra. Among others singers Thomas Hampson and Luca Pisaroni will perform during the concert.
Please find here more information about the event.
July 27th 2018. From January 2020 the conductor Omer Meir Wellber will be Music Director of the Fondazione Teatro Massimo in Palermo. The agreement was signed last night by Omer Meir Wellber, Francesco Giambrone (Sovrintendente of the Teatro Massimo) and Leoluca Orlando (President of the Fondazione and Mayor of Palermo). At the same time, the outgoing Music Director Gabriele Ferro was officially given the title of Honorary Conductor.
You can download photos of this meeting here.
Leoluca Orlando, Gabriele Ferro, Omer Meir Wellber, Francesco Giambrone (c) Irmgard Brand
Sovrintendente Francesco Giambrone:
“I am very excited to have won the outstanding conductor Omer Meir Wellber for our theatre. The new Music Director has the responsible task and challenge to give the house an international dimension and to build as a team a high-quality theater, curious and innovative. Omer Meir Wellber will enrich us with his international experiences and his personality. I have already started planning some very important projects together with him.”
Omer Meir Wellber about his new position:
“I am very happy to become a part of the Teatro Massimo family. This has been a great friendship that began almost ten years ago, and I look forward to taking this theatre into the third decade of the 21st century. As music is an art that exists only in the present, it forces us to breathe and to think together. The combination of personalities, experiences and creative minds is the magic of theatre. I know that the bigger the role music plays in a city’s life, the bigger the cultural happiness will be – Palermo is a city of culture and of multi cultures from ancient times to today, and as such it is in my view the ideal stage for creativity, beauty and perfection.”
Omer Meir Wellber is currently conducting Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Bavarian State Opera during the Munich Opera Festival (final performance on July 29). His tenure as Principal Guest Conductor at the Semperoper Dresden begins in September 2018.
On Friday, 27 July at 11.00 a.m. (CET) the official opening ceremony of this year’s Salzburg Festival will take place in the Felsenreitschule. On this occasion, Kent Nagano will conduct the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg with works by Richard Strauss, Gottfried von Einem and Leonard Bernstein.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on TV (ORF 2). Find more information on this here.
On 26 and 29 July Omer Meir Wellber conducts two performances of Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Bavarian State Opera, on the occasion of Munich Opera Festival. The new production was premiered in March 2018, also led by Omer Meir Wellber.
Find here further information.
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal are currently in Europe and will give concerts in Kracow and at the Salzburg Festival, presenting Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion on the occasion of the composer’s 85. birthday anniversary. The concert in Kracow is on 18 July.
The concert in Salzburg on 20 July will be the festival opening within the Ouverture spirituelle. The OSM will celebrate its festival debut with this concert.
Find here information on the tour on the webpages of OSM.
From 12 until 14 July, Omer Meir Wellber will be guest at SWR Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart and Freiburg after his successful debut with the orchestra in December 2017. The concert on 13 July at 20.00 will be streamed live from Liederhalle Stuttgart at ARTE Concert. It will be available as stream on demand until 9 January 2019. Also SWR Classic offers a livestream of this concert.
On 13 and 14 July, Midori will be guest at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Together with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, she will perform Schumann’s Violin Concerto in Hamburg and Kiel.
Overview on the concerts:
13 July, 20.00
Hamburg, St. Michaelis
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchester, Christoph Eschenbach
Schumann: Violin Concerto
14 July, 20.00
Kiel, Schloss
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchester, Christoph Eschenbach
Schumann: Violin Concerto
Please find further details on the concerts here.
Midori – Konzert in Hong Kong mit Tongyeong Festival Orchestra und Christoph Eschenbach – 10. April 2018 © HK Sinfonietta Ltd
Omer Meir Wellber will be guest with the SWR Symphony Orchestra from 12 – 14 July for concerts in Stuttgart and in Freiburg. On the program will be Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto with violinist Gil Shaham and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. Find here more information on the concerts.
On 4 and 7 July American tenor Gregory Kunde will give two gala concerts with the Latvian soprano Elīna Garanča in Austria: Klassik unter Sternen and Klassik in den Alpen.
In both concerts they will present a “Verismo”program.
Find here further information about the concert in Stift Göttweig on 4 July and here about the concert in Kitzbühel on 7 July.