“Redefining classical music”
Conductor Highlights
“ Any classical music lover who missed this concert should weep”
Music Director of the Salina Symphony since 2022.
Music Director of American Patriots since 2023.
Conductor of the Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings.
Conductor Laureate of the Chelsea Symphony since 2021, an orchestra he co-created in New York City in 2005.
Conductor of Greenwood Junior Music Camp since 2018.
Was assistant of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, and conducted the Minnesota Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic, and Beethoven Academy Orchestra, among others.
Collaborated with classical artists such as Itzhak Perlman and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and pop artists such as Storm Large, the Beach Boys, and Chris Botti.
Multiple-time guest at the Beethoven and Penderecki Festivals in Warsaw.
Studied with Lorin Maazel and Kurt Masur, currently mentored by Andrey Boreyko and Leonard Slatkin, graduate degree from University of Michigan in 2013 (studied with Kenneth Kiesler).
“All of these works are fresh, much more than simple transcriptions, and Segal deserves credit for a genuinely novel program.”
Composer/Arranger Highlights
Co-composer and arranger of American Patriots (2023), a new theatrical song cycle examining Patriotism and the American experience from Indigenous, Black, white working class, and new American perspectives.
Wrote The Harmony Games (2018), an original concert-length educational work for narrator and chamber orchestra; performed over 50 times.
Created A Fidelio Symphony (2018), which transforms Beethoven’s Fidelio into a symphony without voices; recorded with BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Co-arranged Sonata for Orchestra (2017), a symphony in Beethoven’s style of the Sonata No. 7 in C minor; recorded with BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Arranged Rite of Spring, REDUX (2013), a reduced and updated Rite of Spring for chamber orchestra including Saxophone and Electric Guitar, premiered by the Chelsea Symphony.
Wrote, recorded, and edited music for two films at NYU’s Tisch School.
Graduate degree from University of Michigan in 2013, (Bright Sheng, advisor).
“Enthusiastic, lively, and incisive”
Instrumentalist (violin/viola) Highlights
Competition winner and two-time soloist with the Yonkers Philharmonic (Tchaikovsky and Mozart violin concerti).
Performed chamber music with members of the New York Philharmonic.
Founding violinist of the cutting-edge Ensemble Pamplemousse in 2003.
Former member of Local 802 AFM.
“A winner!”
Recordings
In production - music by Patrick Harlin, CD, Beethoven Academy Orchestra.
Beethoven REimagined, CD, BBC NOW, Naxos Records, 2020.
The Mice War, DVD, Animaze Studios, 2017.
Joy and Sorrow, CD, The Chelsea Symphony, Chesky Records, 2015.
Singer/Actor Highlights
“Convincing!”
Started singing as a boy soprano at the Metropolitan Opera at age 8, performing under conductors such as Solti, Levine, and Gergiev.
Toured with the First National Tour of The Secret Garden at age 11, performing alongside Audra MacDonald, Roger Bart, and others.
Acted in acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood at Lincoln Center at 13, alongside Stockhard Channing, David Strathairn, David Lansbury, Josef Sommer, and others.
Appeared as a violinist in a Mt. Rainier coffee commercial with Scarlett Johansson in 2007.
“cause for celebration”
Awards and Fun Facts
Sang on several recordings and voiceovers, including for a Pepsi TV spot.
Featured in Esquire Magazine in 2008 in an article about 12 men who are redefining classical music alongside Joshua Bell, DBR and Huang Ruo.
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, recipient 2009.
Evgeny Sveltanov International Competition, participant 2018.
Narrated L’Histoire du Soldat with Vadim Gluzman in 2018.
Speaks five languages and has dual citizenship with the EU.
Grew up in NYC, son of immigrants who moved to the US to pursue music; mother is a violinist from Poland, father is a violin-maker from Israel.
This page updated June 22, 2024.