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.