Omer Meir Wellber is one of the leading conductors of opera and orchestral repertoire. He is music director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo and a regular guest conductor with renowned orchestras such as the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich and many others. From the 2025/26 season, he will become Hamburg’s General Music Director of the Philharmonische Staatsorchester and General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hamburgischer Staatsoper.
From 2018 to 2022, Omer Meir Wellber was Principal Guest Conductor at the Semperoper Dresden. Highlights of his time as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2019 to 2022 included concerts at the BBC Proms. In 2022, Wellber was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s portrait artist, where he performed on the conductor’s podium as well as on the accordion, harpsichord and piano. In addition to his many international engagements, Wellber continues to maintain close ties with ensembles in his native Israel, for example as Music Director of the Raanana Symphonette, with which he is particularly committed to music education. As well as conducting, he is also active as a writer. His novel ›Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner‹ was published in autumn 2019. Wellber has already toured with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen on several occasions.
