This season, Inbal Segev 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). She collaborates with 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).
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. This past summer’s residency at Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival saw Segev performing 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 an upcoming short film, titled When Robert Met Judith, starring Renée Taylor and Austin Pendleton. Directed by Yaniv Rokah, the film explores themes of love and connection in the final chapters of life and is currently in production.
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