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 concert repertoire. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburger Staatsoper and the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester. To mark the start of his tenure, he staged Schumann’s ›Das Paradies und die Peri‹ in collaboration with director Tobias Kratzer. The programmes with the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester centre on the ‘»multi-faceted idea of a play«, complemented by ›Die Blaue Woche‹ festival; six chamber concerts and ten philharmonic concerts into which contemporary commissioned works are woven. Until 2024, Wellber was Music Director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo where he was awarded the Special Prize of the Italian Association of Music Critics. Prior to that, he was Music Director of the Volksoper Wien, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden and Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, where he conducted at the BBC Proms, among other engagements.

In 2022, Wellber was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s featured artist, appearing there both as a conductor and as a performer on the accordion, harpsichord and piano. He regularly works with renowned orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symohoniker and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. This conductor has enjoyed a close artistic friendship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years, as well as an intensive collaboration on numerous joint projects. He has toured with the orchestra on several occasions, including at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festival Internacional Santander in Spain and various others.