During the 2026/2027 season, Omer Shteinhart will debut with Copenhagen Philharmonic and will work with Bergen National Opera as cover conductor for Goerge Benjamin’s Written on Skin. He will be returning to Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Insimul Sinfonietta as a guest conductor.
In previous seasons, working on both opera and symphonic repertoire, Omer conducted Wiener Kammerorchester at Konzerthaus Wien, Opera Rogaland with a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Menotti’s The Medium and Mahler/Simon Symphony nr. 4 with soloists from Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Omer served as assistant conductor of Stavanger Symphony Orchestra until December 2024, working with Chief Conductor Andris Poga and guest conductors. He was finalist and Critics award winner of the Guido Cantelli 2022 competition and participated in Gstaad Conducting Academy 2022. Through these experiences, he has worked with Orchestra del Teatro Regio Torino, Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra and Gstaad Festival Orchestra. In the New Music scene, Omer regularly works with Insimul Sinfonietta and has conducted works by G.F Haas, Boulez, Adams and Gupta. He has performed with Manchester’s Psappha Ensemble and has participated in the 2020 London Sinfonietta masterclass.
Having graduated with distinction in Conducting from the Royal Northern College of Music under the guidance of Mark Heron and Clark Rundell, Omer was awarded the Mortimer Furber Prize for conducting in 2020/2021. He has assisted at the BBC Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, working with conductors such as Simone Young, Omer Meir Wellber, Ludovic Morlot, Julian Rachlin, John Wilson, Andris Poga and Alpesh Chauhan, among others.
Omer studied with Bjarte Engeset and Peter Szilvay at the University of Stavanger in Norway, where he graduated in 2023.
In masterclasses, he has been mentored by conductors such as Antony Hermus, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Gianandrea Noseda, Jaap van Zweden, Mark Elder, Sascha Goetzel, Nicolás Pasquet, Johannes Schlaefli and Christian Ehwald.
Photo: Ole Wuttudal – Talent Norge
