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Uriel Segal
Conductor,
Music Director
The summer of
2007 will mark Uriel Segal's 18th & final season as Music
Director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Segal first experienced
Chautauqua as a guest conductor in 1986, and returned as a guest
conductor over the next three summers. He is currently on the
faculty of Indiana University Bloomington as principal guest
conductor in the School of Music. He was Music Director of the
Louisville Orchestra from 1999 to 2004, and is Conductor Laureate
of the Century Orchestra Osaka in Japan. In addition to numerous
engagements in Europe, Israel and Japan, he has appeared with
the orchestras of Montreal, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati,
Milwaukee, Dallas, Houston, Rochester, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver
and Buffalo.
Born in Jerusalem
in 1944, Uriel Segal's international career was launched after
winning First Prize at the 1968 Dimitri Mitropoulos International
Conducting Competition in New York. In 1972, Segal took the Stuttgart
Radio Orchestra on a tour of Poland, the first West German orchestra
to visit that country after World War II; he continued as Principal
Guest Conductor of that orchestra for over fifteen years. Segal
has also been Principal Conductor of Philharmonia Hungarica and
the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Recent guest appearances abroad
include the Spanish National Orchestra in Madrid, the Beethovenhalle
Orchestra in Bonn and the Israel Philharmonic.
With homes in
Tel Aviv and Bloomington, Indiana, Uriel and his wife Ilana have
four children, all of whom have spent summers at Chautauqua.
They are also the proud grandparents of a three year old boy
and a one year old girl, the third generation of the family to
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