Cellist Inbal Segev to Perform TANGLE EYE Concerto, 5/7

On Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 4pm, Israeli-American cellist Inbal Segev, known for her "warm, pure and beautiful tone" (Strings Magazine), will give the world premiere of Tangle Eye, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, by California Symphony Young American Composer-in-Residence Dan Visconti, with the California Symphony at Lesher Center for the Arts, in a concert led by Music Director Donato Cabrera. The concert will also include Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Bruckner's Symphony No. 6. A free pre-concert talk with Cabrera will begin at 3pm.

Dan Visconti says that Tangle Eye, which is written for Segev, is based on American folk sources and styles, describing it as, "a true concerto in the traditional melodic and virtuosic sense, custom-made to feature Inbal's particularly rich and assured voice as a cellist." Commissioning new repertoire for the cello is a priority for Segev; current projects include new works by Timo Andres and Fernando Otero. She has also premiered cello concertos by Avner Dorman and Lucas Richman, performed jazz composer David Baker's cello concerto in New York, the U.S. premiere of English composer Sir Arthur Sullivan's Cello Concerto in D Major, and was the first cellist to perform Henri Dutilleux's challenging Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher for solo cello at Carnegie Hall.

Cabrera, Visconti and Segev are also offering a free public introduction to Tangle Eye on Wednesday, May 3 at 7 pm, in Live! from the Library - Fresh Ink: New Music at the Walnut Creek Public Library. The three will introduce and discuss the music and the collaborative process, and Segev will perform short excerpts to illustrate the musical concepts. The event will be live broadcast on Contra Costa TV's website and replayed on the local CCTV station on Sunday, May 7. Advanced registration at www.wclibrary.org/live is appreciated and guarantees your free seat at Live! from the Library programs.

In addition, on Tuesday, May 2 at 8pm at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, Inbal Segev will perform a solo concert featuring new music by women composers, including works by Anna Clyne (Rest These Hands), Augusta Read Thomas (Spring Song), Missy Mazzoli (A Thousand Tongues), and the West Coast premiere of a concerto for cello and electronics written for Segev by Gity Razaz called Legend of Sigh with video and projection design by filmmaker Carmen Kordas. Before Segev's performance of Legend of Sigh, Donato Cabrera will read the Azerbaijani folktale on which the piece is based. Of Legend of Sigh's world premiere at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York, Jon Sobel of Blogcritics wrote, "[Inbal] lived and breathed the stormy and eerie passages, aggressive pizzicatos, and shivery tremolos called for in Razaz's score. Her refreshingly unpretentious stage manner contributed to the impression she gave that it was all easy, which it surely is not."

Inbal Segev's playing has been described as "characterized by a strong and warm tone . . . delivered with impressive fluency and style," by The Strad and "first class," "richly inspired," and "very moving indeed," by Gramophone. Equally committed to new repertoire and masterworks, Segev brings interpretations that are both unreservedly natural and insightful to the vast range of music she performs.

Inbal Segev released her recording of the complete Cello Suites of J.S. Bach in fall 2015 on the Vox label, to critical acclaim and a spot on The New York Times Classical Playlist. Audiences have the opportunity to look behind the scenes at the making of Segev's album through a companion documentary film about her journey through the music of Bach. She has performed Bach's Cello Suites in venues around the world including Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Shanghai Concert Hall, and Henry Crown Hall in the Jerusalem Theatre.

Inbal Segev has performed as soloist with top orchestras around the world including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Bangor Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, San Juan Symphony in Colorado, Arkansas Symphony, Castleton Festival Orchestra with Lorin Maazel, Bogotá Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Dortmund Philharmonic, the Haifa and Be'er Sheva Symphonies in Israel, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Polish National Radio Symphony, the Bangkok Symphony, and more. She made debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta, at age 17.

Inbal Segev is a founding member of the Amerigo Trio with former New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus. She recently performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has collaborated with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Pamela Frank, Jeremy Denk, Anthony McGill, Jason Vieaux, Gilbert Kalish, Michael Tree, Anne Akiko Meyers, the American Chamber Players, and the Vogler Quartet. Festival appearances include the Banff, Ravinia, Bowdoin, Olympic, and Cape & Islands festivals in North America; the Siena, Rolandseck, and Montpellier festivals in Europe; and the Jerusalem Music Center and Upper Galilee festivals in Israel.

In addition to her new Bach album, Segev's discography includes Lucas Richman's Three Pieces for Cello and Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Albany), Sonatas by Beethoven and Boccherini (Opus One), Nigun (Vox), and Max Schubel's Concerto for Cello and Horn (Opus One). With the Amerigo Trio she has recorded serenades by Dohnányi (Navona).

Inbal Segev's many honors include the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship and top prizes at the Pablo Casals, Paulo, and Washington International Competitions. She began playing the cello in Israel at age five and at 16 was invited by Isaac Stern to come to the U.S. to continue her studies. She earned degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University. Inbal Segev lives in New York City with her husband and three children. Her cello was made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1673.

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