Inbal Segev winter/spring 2026: Clyne’s DANCE on tour with UK National Youth Orchestra, including London’s Barbican; premieres of three of her own compositions; CMS and Amerigo Trio performances; more
December 2025) — Cellist Inbal Segev, long celebrated as “a cellist with something to say” (Gramophone), joins the UK’s National Youth Orchestra and conductor Alexandre Bloch on tour to London’s Barbican Hall, Coventry, and Nottingham this winter, performing Anna Clyne’s DANCE, a concerto written for Segev in 2019 that she has performed around the world (Jan 4–7). The cellist also has several of her own compositions premiering this winter and spring. In February, the woodwind group Harmony 3 will premiere Segev’s new work for woodwind trio and cello at New York’s St. John’s in the Village (Feb 7). Later that month, the world premiere of her new cello concerto – Postcards to Jerusalem – will be given by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble under the baton of Nicole Paiement (Feb 27). And to honor International Women’s Day, Segev herself gives a solo performance in the Museum of Arts & Design’s GatherNYC series that includes the premiere of her new work for cello and electronics (March 8). In the spring, Segev’s performing season focuses on chamber music. She reunites with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for two concerts in Lincoln Center’s Rose Studio (April 23) and a free community concert in Queens, playing chamber music by Mozart and 19th-century Swiss composer Joachim Raff (April 24); 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).
UK NYO tour, premiere of Segev cello concerto
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. Her winter tour of the work with the UK National Youth Orchestra (Jan 4–7) follows performances of the piece around the world since its premiere in 2019, led by many conductors, including Alsop. In 2020, Segev and Alsop 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’s star has been rising as a composer in her own right. The remainder of this season alone sees premieres of her new piece for woodwind trio and cello by Harmony 3 (Feb 7); her cello concerto, Postcards to Jerusalem, by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble under the baton of Nicole Paiement (Feb 27); and a new piece for cello and electronics she will premiere herself, in a solo performance as part of the Museum of Art & Design’s GatherNYC series in honor of International Women’s Day (March 8).
Segev’s 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. A residency at Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival in summer 2025 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 (CMS) has taken her across the globe for performances with some of the world’s finest chamber musicians. Following a fall tour with CMS to Bogotá, Colombia, in the spring she joins them in New York for two performances on the same day, performing 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. Following these Manhattan performances, the next day they repeat the program in a free community concert in Queens (April 23 & 24).
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: winter/spring 2026 engagements
Jan 4–7
NYO Great Britain tour
The National Youth Orchestra Great Britain
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 7
New York, NY
St. John’s in the Village
Harmony 3
Inbal SEGEV: New work for woodwind trio and cello (world premiere)
Feb 27
San Francisco, CA
SFCM New Music Ensemble
Nicole Paiement, conductor
Inbal SEGEV: Postcards to Jerusalem (world premiere)
March 8
New York, NY
GatherNYC Series
Museum of Arts and Design
International Women’s Day solo cello show
Inbal SEGEV: New work for cello and electronics (world premiere)
April 23 (6:30 and 9pm)
New York, NY
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Rose Studio at 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
April 24
Queens, NY
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Free community concert
MOZART: Quartet in A for flute, violin, viola, and cello, K. 298
RAFF: Sextet in G minor for Strings, Op. 178
May 9-11
Amersfoort, Netherlands
Festival Arte Musica Amersfoort
May 17
Rye, NY
Temple Emanu-El of Westchester
Amerigo Trio plus Friends
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, “American”