Yaniv Segal
Yaniv Segal is a versatile conductor, composer, and artist who is “redefining classical music” (Esquire Magazine). In 2025, he was named Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Orchestra Indiana, while he also currently serves as Music Director of the Salina Symphony and Director of Orchestral Training at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings. A former Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Naples Philharmonic, Yaniv has assisted at the New York Philharmonic and collaborated with performers ranging from Yitzhak Perlman to the Beach Boys. Guest appearances include the Minnesota Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Cracovia, and Beethoven Academy Orchestra. Since 2023, Yaniv has been co-developing American Patriots, a new theatrical song cycle examining patriotism and the current lived American experience from Indigenous, Black, white working class, and new American perspectives.
His taste for innovation is on display on Beethoven REimagined (released by NAXOS with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales) which the Times of London called “exciting [and] outrageous,” and features Beethoven’s music arranged by Yaniv as well as by composer/DJ Gabriel Prokofiev. Other commercial recordings include Patrick Harlin’s Earthrise, recorded in 2024 at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music and which is part of contemporary artist Anne Patterson’s touring museum installation “The Truth of the Night Sky.” Previous releases feature Klezmer-influenced works of David Chesky on Joy and Sorrow, and The Mice War: an opera that teaches the children about the folly of war.
Yaniv has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, toured the USA and Japan with the First National Tour of The Secret Garden, was “[convincing] as Hapgood’s adolescent son” (New York Times) in Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood at Lincoln Center, and twice played as a violin soloist with his hometown Yonkers Philharmonic. As a composer, Yaniv’s music has recently been performed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Corcoran Institute, and by the Naples Philharmonic, Reno Philharmonic, Sarasota Chamber Orchestra, Ashland Symphony Orchestra, Salina Symphony, Grand Rapids Classical Orchestra, and Norwalk Symphony.