Uri Segal

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