Inbal Segev in 2026–27: NYC premiere of Clyne’s DANCE with Experiential Orchestra (Oct 23); performances with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Dec 6 & 8; May 16); multiple premieres of her own new compositions

Inbal Segev (photo: Veronica L. Yankowski)

(September 2026) — Anna Clyne wrote her cello concerto DANCE for Inbal Segev – long celebrated as “a cellist with something to say” (Gramophone) – in 2019, and Segev has since performed the work around the world. Her recording of DANCE with Marin Alsop leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been heard more than 13 million times on Spotify. In the 2026–27 season, Segev performs the New York City premiere of the piece, joining the Experiential Orchestra under the direction of its founding conductor, James Blachly (Oct 23). Segev’s season is also filled with a wide range of chamber music performances. A frequent collaborator with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS), this season she performs and tours two programs with that ensemble: the first of Baroque concertos featuring wind soloists (Dec 6 & 8); and the second of chamber works of orchestral scale by Bach, Stravinsky, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Mozart (May 16). Other chamber music engagements this season include a program of Brahms, Schubert, and Dvořák for the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth with an ensemble that includes Yekwon Sunwoo, the first Korean to win the gold medal at the Van Cliburn Competition (Oct 10); performances with pianist Miri Yampolsky at Cornell’s Ithaca Mayfest chamber music festival (May 19–26), and a concert in Tel Aviv comprising Mozart’s E-flat major Piano Quartet and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (June 5). Segev also performs her own works numerous times this season, including the world premiere of her Sonata for cello and piano in a solo recital in Cold Spring, New York with pianist Yalin Chi (Oct 18); a reprise of the same piece in Dallas’s Blue Candlelight Series (Nov 15); and world premieres of both East West for solo cello and a new string quartet at the Guadalajara International Music Festival (March 21–31).

DANCE with Experiential Orchestra

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, also Segev’s partner on the recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra that was named among NPR’s “Favorite Songs of 2020.” Segev revisits the work in live performance this season with the Grammy Award-winning Experiential Orchestra (EXO) led by James Blachly in an all-Clyne program. With performances and recordings that have been described as “strikingly persuasive” by the San Francisco Chronicle and “immaculate” by Musical America, EXO’s immersive and interactive concert experiences embrace the unique acoustics and characters of each venue; the Clyne performance will be at New York’s DiMenna Center for Classical Music (Oct 23).

Recordings and premieres of Segev compositions

Even while she continues to actively commission new works from others, in recent years Segev’s star has been rising as a composer in her own right. Two of Segev’s works will be recorded this fall: the Salix Piano Trio will record her piano trio – which they commissioned and premiered – for a 2027 release, as well as performing the work live in Manhattan in a CUNY Graduate Center “Music in Midtown” concert (Oct 22). Segev herself will record her new Sonata for cello and piano with pianist Steven Beck, slated for release this coming spring on Avie Records, as well as premiering the work at the Sunday Music Series at the Chapel Restoration in Cold Spring, New York, joined by Artistic Director Yalin Chi on piano, on a program with Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata, Bach’s Fourth Cello Suite in E-flat, and Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro (Oct 18). The same work will be reprised the following month on a chamber program in Dallas’s Blue Candlelight Music Series (Nov 15). In the spring, Segev will premiere two works at the Guadalajara International Music Festival: East West for solo cello and a new string quartet (March 21–31). Finally, Segev’s compositions are featured in two films appearing at film festivals this season, both directed by Yaniv Rokah: the documentary Follow Me, which will be screened twice at the Newport Beach Film Fest (Oct 18 & 20), and the short film When Robert Met Judith, which will be shown at the Chelsea Film Festival (Oct 15). Segev also performs on the latter film’s soundtrack.

More chamber performances

Segev’s longstanding collaboration with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) has taken her across the globe for performances with some of the world’s finest chamber musicians. This season she joins CMS for two different programs, starting in December with a set of Baroque concertos by Vivaldi, Marcello, Torelli, C.P.E. Bach, Telemann, and rarely performed Bohemian composer Antonín Reichenauer. Programmed to feature wind soloists, the works include concertos for flute, oboe, and bassoon; a Vivaldi concerto grosso featuring all three; and two trumpet sonatas with strings (Dec 6 & 8).

In May, Segev returns to CMS for a program of orchestral scale chamber works, joining a large cohort of world-class chamber musicians. On the program is Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto, Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos cantata featuring mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 13 for strings; and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A (May 16).

Earlier in the season, Segev plays a chamber concert for the Chamber Music Society of Forth Worth along with violinist Gary Levinson, violist Michael Klotz, and pianist Yekwon Sunwoo, 2017 winner of the Van Cliburn Competition. Repertoire includes Dvořák’s Third Piano Trio; Schubert’s Second String Trio; and a Piano Trio and Piano Quartet by Brahms, both in C minor. The latter work was begun during the final illness of the composer’s dear friend Schumann, when he was torn between despair for his friend and love for Schumann’s wife, Clara. Brahms joked sarcastically with his publisher when he finished the work in later years that it should have a picture of him with a gun to his head on the cover, dressed like Goethe’s Werther, who commits suicide because of unrequited love (Oct 10).

Wrapping up her season in Tel Aviv’s Shtriker Auditorium, Segev joins an international ensemble comprising Israeli pianist Victor Stanislavsky, Israeli violinist Asi Matathias, Dutch violinist Tosca Opdam, and American violist Marc Sabbah. They perform Mozart’s E-flat major Piano Quartet, K. 493 – the second of two that Mozart wrote, and an instrumental combination that he was one of the first composers in history to embrace – and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet. The latter work is also one of two produced by the composer, who began with the intention of revising the first one but decided upon a completely new work instead, destroying the manuscript of his earlier effort (June 5).

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, and her album 20 for 2020 concludes with the first recording of Behold, her own composition for cello quartet. She went on to write B Natural, an homage to her teacher Aldo Parisot that premiered at Yale University in 2023. Subsequent compositions include I’m Nobody! Who are you?, an Emily Dickinson setting for unaccompanied women’s choir; a string trio, which received its first performance from the Fort Worth Chamber Music Society in spring 2024; and a clarinet trio, which received its world premiere in Jerusalem and its U.S. premiere from the counter)induction ensemble in New York. Her most recent premieres include a piano trio, premiered by the commissioning Salix Piano Trio; a piece for woodwind trio and cello premiered by Harmony 3; her cello concerto, Postcards to Jerusalem, premiered by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble; and a work for cello and electronics in honor of the 2026 International Women’s Day that she premiered herself. Segev’s cello was made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1673. A complete bio for Segev is available here.

Inbal Segev: 2026–27 engagements

Oct 10
Fort Worth, TX
Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth
Gary Levinson, violin
Michael Klotz, viola
Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
DVOŘÁK: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
BRAHMS: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101
SCHUBERT: String Trio in B-flat, D.471
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

Oct 18
Cold Spring, NY 
Yalin Chi, piano
BACH: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat
SCHUMANN: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata
Inbal SEGEV: Sonata for cello and piano (world premiere)

Oct 22
New York, NY
Music at Midtown
Salix Piano Trio
Inbal SEGEV: Piano Trio

Oct 23
New York, NY
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Experiential Orchestra
James Blachly, conductor
Anna CLYNE: DANCE (NYC Premiere)

Nov 15
Dallas, TX
Blue Candlelight Music Series
Inbal SEGEV: Sonata for cello and piano

Dec 6 & 8
New York, NY
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, and Continuo, RV 103
MARCELLO: Concerto in C minor for Oboe, Strings, and Continuo
TORELLI: Sonata a cinque No. 1 in D for Trumpet, Strings, and Continuo, G. 1
C.P.E. BACH: Concerto in D minor for Flute, Strings, and Continuo, H. 484.1
VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for Bassoon, Strings, and Continuo, RV 497
REICHENAUER: Concerto in B-flat for Oboe, Bassoon, and Continuo
TELEMANN: Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings, and Continuo, TWV 44:1

March 21–31
Guadalajara, Mexico
Guadalajara International Music Festival
Inbal SEGEV: East West for solo cello (world premiere)
Inbal SEGEV: New string quartet (world premiere)

May 16
New York, NY
BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
STRAVINSKY: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra, “Dumbarton Oaks”
HAYDN (arr. Jaffe): Arianna a Naxos, Cantata for Voice, String Quintet and Harpsichord, Hob. XXVIb:2
MENDELSSOHN: Sinfonia No. 13 in C minor for strings
MOZART: Concerto in A for Clarinet and Orchestra, K. 622

May 19–26
Ithaca, NY
Mayfest
Miri Yampolsky, piano

June 5
Tel Aviv, Israel
Shtriker Auditorium
Victor Stanislavsky, piano
Asi Matathias, violin
Tosca Opdam, violin
Mark Saabah, viola
MOZART: Piano Quartet in E flat, K. 493
DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet