Born in Romania, Daniel Ciobanu began taking piano lessons at the age of nine. He won the Constantin Silvestri Scholarship while he was still at school, with which he financed a year abroad studying at the renowned Stewart’s Melville College in Edinburgh. In 2010 he became a student at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire and was invited to perform in London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2011. Here, he performed in a 100-strong piano orchestra together with the Chinese star pianist Lang Lang who selected Ciobanu to perform a solo piece of his own choice.

Daniel Ciobanu is the winner of many international piano competitions. In May 2017 at the ›Arthur Rubenstein Piano Competition‹ in Tel Aviv he not only won Second Prize but also the Audience Prize. Further prizes include First Prize at the ›BDNES International Piano Competition‹ in Rio de Janeiro, the First Prize and the Special Prize for the best classical sonata at the ›UNISA International Piano Competition‹ in Pretoria. This pianist has already performed many concerts in international concert halls, including the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town, in the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, in the Mozarteum Salzburg and in the Salle Cortot in Paris. He played his Carnegie Hall debut in New York in 2018 and more recently in the Konzerthaus Berlin. This will be his debut concert with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

Omer Meir Wellber is one of the leading conductors of opera and orchestral repertoire. He is music director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo and a regular guest conductor with renowned orchestras such as the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich and many others. From the 2025/26 season, he will become Hamburg’s General Music Director of the Philharmonische Staatsorchester and General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hamburgischer Staatsoper.

From 2018 to 2022, Omer Meir Wellber was Principal Guest Conductor at the Semperoper Dresden. Highlights of his time as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2019 to 2022 included concerts at the BBC Proms. In 2022, Wellber was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s portrait artist, where he performed on the conductor’s podium as well as on the accordion, harpsichord and piano. In addition to his many international engagements, Wellber continues to maintain close ties with ensembles in his native Israel, for example as Music Director of the Raanana Symphonette, with which he is particularly committed to music education. As well as conducting, he is also active as a writer. His novel ›Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner‹ was published in autumn 2019. Wellber has already toured with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen on several occasions.