YANIV SEGAL

Yaniv Segal is a rising star “redefining classical music” (Esquire Magazine) and has found success since childhood as a versatile performer and artist. Beginning in 2025, he will serve as Artistic Director of Orchestra Indiana and Principal Conductor of the Muncie and Marion Symphonies. He is currently in his third season as Music Director of the Salina Symphony in Kansas and is on faculty at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, where he conducts the Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra. Yaniv is a former Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Naples Philharmonic and has worked with the New York Philharmonic, Yitzhak Perlman, the Beach Boys, and others.

He is the Musical Artistic Director and co-creator of American Patriots, a theatrical song cycle exploring patriotism and the lived American experience through diverse cultural perspectives. His commercial recordings include Beethoven Reimagined with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (NAXOS), Earthrise by Patrick Harlin, and Joy and Sorrow, featuring klezmer-inspired works. Yaniv also composed The Harmony Games, an educational orchestral piece performed over 50 times, and has written multiple large-scale works including New American Songs, Skychange, and Rite of Spring (Redux).

As a child, he sang at the Metropolitan Opera, toured with The Secret Garden, performed on television and in Lincoln Center productions, and recorded music across genres. He studied conducting and composition at the University of Michigan, where he was mentored by Kenneth Kiesler and Bright Sheng, and was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans.

Yaniv is a first-generation American raised in New York City by a Polish mother—one of the first women in the New York Philharmonic—and an Israeli father, a luthier who crafted the instruments the family plays.

Learn more at www.yanivsegal.com