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 at the Volksoper in Vienna, Music Director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo and Artistic Director of the Toscanini Festival. He is also a regular guest with renowned orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich.

Omer Meir Wellber’s long-standing collaboration with the Semperoper Dresden culminated in his position as Principal Guest Conductor from 2018 to 2022. Since 2010, he has been conducting new productions and re-recordings as well as symphony concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle. Highlights as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic include concerts at the BBC Proms and the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival. Despite his many international engagements, Omer Meir Wellber still maintains close ties with ensembles in his native Israel, for example as Music Director of the Raanana Symphonette with whom he is particularly committed to music education and outreach. In addition, Wellber is also active as a writer and published his first novel ‘Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner’ (The Four Faints of Chaim Birkner) in autumn 2019, also translated into Italian and French. He has already collaborated several times with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen in concerts and on joint tours.