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.
