The Lithuanian accordion superstar Martynas Levickis transcends entrenched conventions and clichés as an international figure on the classical music scene. He is characterised by his extraordinary ability to keep his finger on the pulse – and not just in music. In addition to his internationally acclaimed virtuosity, he is a visionary: preserving as well as reinterpreting the accordion and its traditions.

During his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he won the television programme ›Lithuania´s Got Talent‹ (2010) and, later the same year, the Coupe Mondial. This was followed by his debut album ›Martynas‹ on decca and, in 2023, he won the OPUS KLASSIK as ›Instrumentalist of the Year‹ for his album ›Autograph‹ (accentus). Engagements have taken him from Asia to Europe and the USA. He takes great pleasure in working with musical partners such as Iveta Apkalna, Benjamin Appl, Andris Nelsons, the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Stuttgart Kammer Orchester. He regularly fills stadiums in the Baltic States with his very own Mikroorkéstra.

The ARTE film ›Martynas Levickis und das Akkordeon‹ was broadcast in 2024.

Audiences were treated to a sensation when he wowed them at the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen’s open-air summer festival ›Summer in Lesmona‹.

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.