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.