Inbal Segev in 2025–26: Clyne’s DANCE at Barbican Hall, premieres of Coates Berceuse at International Cello Festival of Canada and her own cello concerto, Postcards to Jerusalem in San Francisco, more
(October 2025) — Cellist Inbal Segev, long celebrated as “a cellist with something to say” (Gramophone), joins the UK’s National Youth Orchestra on tour in London’s Barbican Hall, Coventry, and Nottingham this season, performing Anna Clyne’s DANCE, a concerto written for Segev in 2019 that she has performed around the world (Jan 4–7). Segev also joins a stellar roster of cello soloists this fall at the International Cello Festival of Canada, performing C.P.E. Bach’s Cello Concerto in A for the opening concert of the festival (Oct 28) and following that up with subsequent performances of a work written for her: the live world premiere of Gloria Coates’s Berceuse, commissioned and recorded as part of Segev’s 20 for 2020 project (Oct 29). Soon thereafter she performs music of Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and Dvořák at the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth (Nov 8), and then heads to Bogotá, Colombia for a pair of programs with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS), with which she is a frequent collaborator, performing music of Mozart, Arensky, Boccherini, and Menotti in various chamber configurations (Nov 21 & 22). In early December she continues with chamber music in Chicago, performing Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet and Jean Cras’s String Trio with Chamber Music Chicago in a concert that will be broadcast on the radio the following day (Dec 7; radio broadcast Dec 8). Next spring, Segev reunites with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for two concerts in Lincoln Center’s Rose Studio, playing chamber music by Mozart and 19th-century Swiss composer Joachim Raff (April 23), and she performs Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet No. 12 in a concert with the Amerigo Trio (and friends), an ensemble she founded in 2009 with New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus (May 17). Finally, the world premiere of Segev’s own new cello concerto – Postcards to Jerusalem – will be given next spring by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble under the baton of Nicole Paiement (Feb 27).
UK NYO tour, Coates and Segev premieres
Long known as a driving force in the creation of new cello repertoire for the 21st century, Segev commissioned Anna Clyne’s DANCE after being introduced to the composer by MacArthur Award-winning conductor Marin Alsop. She has performed the piece around the world since its premiere in 2019, led by many conductors including Alsop, and in 2020 the two released a “hugely impressive” (The Guardian) recording of the work on the Avie label with the London Philharmonic that topped the Amazon Classical Concertos chart and has received more than twelve and a half million listens on Spotify, while its opening movement was chosen as one of NPR Music’s “Favorite Songs of 2020.”
Even while she continues to actively commission new works from others, in recent years Segev has also been making a mark as a composer in her own right. Her recently completed cello concerto titled Postcards to Jerusalem will be given its world premiere this season by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble under the baton of Nicole Paiement (Feb 27). Her cello quartet, Behold, was her own contribution to her 20 for 2020 project, for which she commissioned 20 new chamber works for a four-volume recording and video series from Avie Records. Another work commissioned for 20 for 2020, Gloria Coates’s Berceuse, will be given its live world premiere in January when Segev gives a series of performances at the International Cello Festival of Canada. This past summer’s residency at Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival also saw Segev performing her own works: she gave two recitals joined by members of the Grant Park Orchestra that included both Behold and her Trio for Cello, Clarinet and Piano. Other works in progress include an orchestral suite and Segev’s score for the feature documentary Follow Me, directed by Yaniv Rokah and telling the inspiring story of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Amerigo Trio
Segev’s longstanding collaboration with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has taken her across the globe for performances with some of the world’s finest chamber musicians. This fall she plays two programs with CMS in Bogotá, Colombia, joining them on the first for an arrangement of Mozart’s Concerto No. 23 for piano and string quintet, along with Anton Arensky’s Quartet No. 2 for the very rare configuration of violin, viola and two cellos (Nov 21). On the second program, Segev performs Boccherini’s String Quintet, as well as Menotti’s Suite for Two Cellos and Piano (Nov 22).
In December, Segev heads to Chicago to perform Jean Cras’s String Trio and Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2, joined by violinist Janet Sung, violist Teng Li. and pianist Gilles Vonsattel under the auspices of Chamber Music Chicago. The performance will be broadcast on the radio the following day on Chicago’s WFMT (Dec 7; radio broadcast Dec 8).
In the spring, Segev gives two more performances with CMS on the same day, in New York, this time playing Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A and the Sextet in G minor by Joachim Raff. A prolific Swiss composer and teacher all but forgotten now, Raff was once extremely popular: his Symphony No. 3, “In the Forest,” was one of the most frequently performed orchestral pieces in the world at the end of the 19th century (April 23).
Segev founded the Amerigo Trio in 2009 with New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus after their successful collaboration at the Bowdoin International Chamber Music Festival, hailed as a “virtuoso performance … an extraordinary interchange of musical thought” by the Maine Sunday Telegram. After a performance in Washington, DC, The Washington Post raved: “Dicterow’s sweet, large, tightly focused tone gave the ensemble a rock-solid leading voice. But cellist Inbal Segev matched him with her thrillingly projected, vibrato-rich playing (not to mention a beautifully judged range of color and dynamics), while Karen Dreyfus’s lean and throaty viola sound provided piquant contrast. It was in its finely woven blend of timbres and rapport, though, that the trio most deeply satisfied.” This season, the trio will be joined by some additional string players for a concert including – appropriately for a year in which the U.S. celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding – Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet, written during the composer’s time in the United States, shortly after the completion of the “New World Symphony” (May 17).
About Inbal Segev
Inbal Segev is “a cellist with something to say” (Gramophone). Combining rich tone and technical mastery with rare dedication and intelligence, she has appeared with orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Dortmund Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Pittsburgh Symphony, Polish National Radio Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony, collaborating with such prominent conductors as Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, Edward Gardner, Kirill Karabits, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Măcelaru, and Zubin Mehta. Committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire, she has commissioned and premiered new cello concertos from Timo Andres, Anna Clyne, Avner Dorman, Fernando Otero, Victoria Poleva, and Dan Visconti. Recorded with Alsop and the London Philharmonic for Avie Records, Segev’s premiere recording of Clyne’s cello concerto DANCE, was an instant success, topping the Amazon Classical Concertos chart. Its opening movement was chosen as one of NPR Music’s “Favorite Songs of 2020,” receiving more than twelve million listens on Spotify. To encourage creative recovery during the early pandemic lockdowns, Segev launched 20 for 2020, a commissioning, recording, and video project for 20 cutting-edge composers, including John Luther Adams, Viet Cuong, and Angélica Negrón, all of whom wrote new works in response to the worldwide crisis. Segev’s previous discography includes acclaimed recordings of the Elgar Cello Concerto, Romantic cello works, and Bach’s Cello Suites, while her popular YouTube masterclass series, Musings with Inbal Segev, has inspired a generation of cellists.
A native of Israel, at 16 Segev was invited by Isaac Stern to continue her cello studies in the U.S., where she earned degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School, before co-founding the Amerigo Trio with former New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus. Segev started composing during the pandemic: her cello quartet, Behold, can be heard on her album 20 for 2020; her cello octet, B Natural, premiered at Yale in 2023; and in 2024 her string trio premiered in Fort Worth and her clarinet trio in Israel. Segev’s cello was made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1673. A complete bio for Segev is available here.
Inbal Segev: 2025–26 season engagements
Oct 28
Winnipeg, Manitoba
International Cello Festival
“Between Earth and Sky”
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Anne Manson, conductor
C.P.E. BACH: Cello Concerto in A
Oct 29 at 2 pm
Winnipeg, Manitoba
International Cello Festival
“Force of Nature: The Beethoven Cello Sonatas”
BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No. 2
Oct 29 at 7:30 pm
Winnipeg, Manitoba
International Cello Festival
“The Ocean in a Drop”
Inbal Segev, Denise Djokic, Cameron Crozman, cello
Dead of Winter chamber choir
Jocelyn MORLOCK: The Violet Hour (cello quartet, part 1)
Jacob NARVERUD: Sunflower
Gloria COATES: Berceuse (live world premiere)
Nov 1
Winnipeg, Manitoba
International Cello Festival
Gala Finale: For Rita
Nov 8
Fort Worth, TX
Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth
Asi Matathias, violin
Louis Lourtie, piano
FAURÉ: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Trio No. 1 in F, Op. 18
DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81
Nov 21
Bogotá, Colombia
Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Stella Chen and Julian Rhee, violin
Paul Neubauer, viola
Dmitri Atapine and Inbal Segev, cello
MOZART: Concerto No. 23 in A for piano and string quintet
ARENSKY: Quartet No. 2 in A minor for violin, viola and two cellos
Nov 22
Bogotá, Colombia
Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Stella Chen and Julian Rhee, violin
Paul Neubauer, viola
Dmitri Atapine and Inbal Segev, cello
BOCCHERINI: Quintet in E for two violins, viola and two cellos
MENOTTI: Suite for Two Cellos and Piano
Dec 7 (broadcast on WFMT radio Dec 8)
Chicago, IL
Chamber Music Chicago
Janet Sung, violin
Teng Li. viola
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
CRAS: String Trio
FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45
Jan 4–7
NYO Great Britain tour
National Youth Orchestra
Alexandre Bloch, conductor
Anna CLYNE: DANCE for cello and orchestra
Jan 4: London, England (Barbican)
Jan 5: Coventry (Warwick Arts Centre)
Jan 6: Nottingham (Royal Concert Hall)
Jan 7: school concerts
Feb 27
San Francisco, CA
SFCM New Music Ensemble
Nicole Paiement, conductor
Inbal SEGEV: Postcards to Jerusalem (world premiere)
April 23 (6:30 and 9pm)
New York, NY
Rose Studio CMS
Sooyun Kim, flute
Francisco Fullana, violin
Sean Lee, violin
Lun Li, violin
Matthew Lipman, viola
James Thompson, violin/viola
Jonathan Swensen, cello
Inbal Segev, cello
MOZART: Quartet in A for flute, violin, viola, and cello, K. 298
RAFF: Sextet in G minor for Strings, Op. 178
May 17
Rye, NY
Temple Emanu-El of Westchester
Amerigo Trio plus Friends
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, “American”