Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

Omer Meir Wellber
Music Director of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Omer Meir Wellber is emerging as one of the most talented young conductors today. Born in Israel in 1981, he is the resident conductor both in The Israeli Opera-Tel Aviv and The Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, as well as music director of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.

He began his musical education at the age of five. He plays the accordion and piano. Composer and conductor, the Israeli Sinfonietta has premiered several of his works. He has performed with the Israeli Sinfonietta, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Jerusalem, Haifa and Israel. At The Israeli Opera-Tel Aviv he has conducted productions such as La traviata, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, La Gioconda, L'elisir d'amore, Il trovatore and Così fan tutte.

He has assisted and studied with Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, and at La Scala in Milan. He conducted Aida with the Orchestra of La Scala at The Israeli Opera-Tel Aviv and in Tokyo, as well as symphonic concerts in Verona and at La Fenice in Venice, with great success of public and critics. He obtained a huge success at Berlin Staatsoper (Tosca and Carmen) and at the opening of the 2010-2011 season at the Semperoper in Dresden (Daphne). Maestro Seiji Ozawa personally invited him to conduct Salome at the Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto.

Recent engagements include Tosca, Aida and Werther at La Scala; Tosca in Palermo and symphonic concerts at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and La Fenice. He has also conducted the orchestras of Paris and Filarmonica della Scala. Future engagements include Aida at La Scala, La traviata in Munich, Euryanthe in Frankfurt , and symphonic concerts with the Israel Philharmonic, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, RAI di Torino, Santa Cecilia di Roma, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin. He will open the next two editions of the Wiener Festwochen with La traviata (2012) and Il trovatore (2013), thus completing Verdi's trilogy together with Rigoletto, that he conducted in 2011. At the Palau de les Arts he has conducted Aida, Evgeni Onegin and L'elisir d'amore, as well as several symphonic concerts.