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The distinguished conducting career of Omri Hadari began after he had achieved outstanding success as one of Israel’s finest trumpeters. His experience with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, his graduation from the advanced conducting course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama - London preceded his step into the limelight of the podium where he has demonstrated his ability to handle repertoire from the Classic, the Romantic period, and the Twentieth Century. His performances have consistently earned outstanding reviews, with special acclaim for his interpretations of large-scale symphonies by Mahler, Bruckner, Sibelius, Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
He has appeared with many major orchestras, including the
Royal Philharmonic, the
London Symphony, the
City of Birmingham Symphony, the
Israel Chamber, the San Francisco Chamber, the Northern Sinfonia of England, the Divertimenti and the
Columbus Symphony (Ohio). He has conducted his own London Lyric Orchestra in London’s major concert halls and in important British festivals. Since 1980 Hadari has conducted the Australian Broadcasting Corporation orchestras, the
Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on a regular basis.
In 1987 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Seven grand tours with the Australian orchestras earned him enormous popularity, resulting in an invitation to conduct Puccini’s La Boheme at the
Sydney Opera House during the Australian Opera’s Bicentennial Celebration Season. During the Bicentennial Celebration he also conducted in the Sydney Opera Concert Hall, directed live broadcasts and made studio recordings for the ABC.
In addition to opera, Hadari has enjoyed great success conducting opera and ballet, and has toured the United States, Canada and Holland with the Dutch National Ballet, and Australia with the
Victorian State Opera. He has conducted for the Bat-Sheva Dance Company in Israel, and for Sadler’s Wells
Royal Ballet on tour.
Hadari was invited by the British Film Institute to reconstruct the original score of Shostakovich’s music for the first complete version of the silent film, New Babylon. The first performance in the west, which he conducted with the London Lyric Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall was held as triumph, and was followed by performances at the New York Festival, the San Francisco Film Festival, the Helsinki Festival and the Flanders Festival. Tours were later repeated in Holland and the United Kindom. He recorded the complete version of the New Babylon for BBC TV’s ‘Arena Special’ on Channel 2.
In 1985 Omri Hadari was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the
Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. From 1989 to 1992 Hadari was
Music Director and Principal Conductor of the
CTSO. During this period he also conducted all the major South African orchestras, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta. Orquestra Nacional do Porto and Simfonica Portuguess, the major orchestras in Australia and the Ulster Symphony Orchestra, Northern Ireland. From 1992 to 1998 Hadari was the Principal Guest Conductor of Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Portugal. He has also toured three times with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.
Hadari has made many television appearances on SABC TV and has produced several CD recordings for Polygram/ABC Records and Clermont Records. He is well known for his work in training student orchestras and young conductors.
In November 1999 he was appointed Principal Conductor and Music Adviser of the Ashdod Chamber Orchestra ,Israel. This unique orchestra very successfully toured the U.K under the baton of maestro Hadari in November 2000. In 0ctober 2002 he acquired the position of Music Director & Principal Conductor of “Classica” Chamber Orchestra Hadera,Israel
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