Uri Segal

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Uri Segal (born 7 March 1944, Jerusalem) is an Israeli musical conductor.

Segal studied violin and conducting at the Rubin Academy of Music (now the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance). From 1966 to 1969, he attended the Guildhall School of Music.

In 1969, shortly after his graduation, Segal won first prize in the Dimitri Mitropolous Conducting Competition in New York City. For a year after this, he served as Leonard Bernstein's assistant with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

From 1980 to 1982, Segal was the chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. From 1981 to 1985, he was principal conductor of the Philharmonia Hungarica. He has also served as artistic director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

In the US, Segal became Music Director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in 1990, and held the post through 2007. In 1990, in Osaka, Japan, he founded the Century Orchestra and was its chief conductor through 1998. He subsequently became the Century Orchestra's Laureate Conductor.^[1]

Segal married Ilana Finkelstein in 1966. They have three daughters and a son.^[1]

References

Holmes, John L. Conductors on Record, Victor Gollancz, 1982.
Lyman, Darryl. Great Jews in Music, J. D. Publishers, 1986.
Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan, 1980.

↑ 1.0 1.1 International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2009), p. 743 (ISBN 978-1-85743-513-9)

External links

Segal's General Management Schmidt Artists International
Bach Cantatas page on Uri Segal
Page on Century Orchestra

Cultural offices
Preceded by Paavo Berglund	Principal Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 1980–1982	Succeeded by Rudolf Barshai
Preceded by (no predecessor)	Chief Conductor, Century Orchestra 1990–1998	Succeeded by Ken Takaseki
Preceded by Joseph Silverstein	Music Director, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra 1990–2007	Succeeded by Stefan Sanderling
Preceded by Max Bragado-Darman	Music Director, The Louisville Orchestra 1998–2004	Succeeded by Jorge Mester

Authority control	VIAF: 12492857 ISNI: 0000 0000 6308 7589 BNF: cb13899630k

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Name	Segal, Uri
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Short description	Israeli conductor
Date of birth	7 March 1944
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