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.

As one of the leading conductors of opera and concert repertoire, Omer Meir Wellber regularly works with renowned orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra or the Swedish Radio Symphony. Since 2025, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg Staatsoper and the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester. His first opera production there in autumn 2025 was Schumann’s ›Das Paradies und die Peri‹. The programme with the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester centres on the »multi-faceted concept of performance«. This is complemented by the new ›Die Blaue Woche‹ festival featuring chamber concerts and philharmonic concerts, with contemporary commissioned works woven into nearly all programmes. 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 and, until 2022, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden. Highlights from his time as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2019 to 2022 included concerts at the BBC Proms. In 2022, the multi-talented conductor 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. Omer Meir Wellber has enjoyed a close artistic friendship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years, as well as an intensive collaboration – most recently during a joint orchestra tour with the violinist Hilary Hahn, and conducting the Kammer­philharmonie at the Neuschwanstein Concerts in 2026 and the BBC Proms in London.