SamWeller
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About Sam
Designate Winner (Finalist): Rotterdam International Conducting Competition 2024-25 Artistic and Music Director: Ensemble Apex
Sam Weller was recently announced as one of six ‘designated winners’ of the International Conducting Competition Rotterdam, which will see him conduct ensembles such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Klangforum Wien and Orchestra of the 18th Century in 2025.
Originally from Australia and now based between Sydney and Amsterdam, Sam founded Ensemble Apex in 2016, which has been hailed as ‘one of the most exciting new ensembles on the Sydney scene’ (Limelight Magazine). In 2024 they launched Apex Festival supported by the Australian Government - a cutting edge new orchestral music festival in Australia.
Sam’s upcoming engagements include operas with the Dutch National Opera Academy and symphonic concerts with Noord Nederlands Orkest, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Phil Zuid and Residentie Orkest.
In 2022 Sam graduated from the prestigious National Masters of Orchestral Conducting in The Netherlands where he studied with Ed Spanjaard, Jac Van Steen, Kenneth Montgomery OBE and guest professor Antony Hermus.
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
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Ensemble Apex
Apex Festival, SydneyOct 2024Weller’s passion as a conductor is so much fun to watch. All emotion on display in his gestures. He makes it easy to trace the way in which maestro and orchestra feed off the other’s energy. The danger and beauty of this work lies in its incredibly raw and stripped back nature, and Apex navigated it expertly – from the wretched whimpers of Scott McDougall’s prepared piano to the rasps of bowed cymbals and explosive tom hits from the percussion section, whose expansive and eclectic set of instruments made them the unsung stars of the work. Weller squeezed absolutely everything out of this ending, and Apex’s painstaking patience with the final chord reaped its well-earned reward – a thin, delicate tension that added a huge amount of depth to the work.
- Limelight
- 04 October 2024