Aviva Segall
- Music Director Emerita
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Biography
For 25 years, Aviva Segall had held her “dream job” as music director and principal conductor for the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras.
Segall works nationally as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician with a variety of professional orchestras, national conferences, all state and festival ensembles.
A small sample of groups she recently worked with include the Omaha Symphony, ASTA national conference, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Wisconsin middle level All State Orchestra and school districts throughout the country. She served on the board of directors for the American Symphony Orchestra League- Youth Orchestra Division, the Nebraska Music Education Association and on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts.
She served as conducting apprentice with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and was concurrently on the conducting staff of the Portland Youth Philharmonic.
Segall studied at Wellesley College, the University of Southern California, and Northwestern University as well as training at the Aspen Music Festival.
Her Thomas J. Watson Fellowship studied rehearsal techniques in Europe.
Segall's principal conducting mentors include Victor Yampolsky, Daniel Lewis, Murry Sidlin, and James De Priest.
Additional Information
Biography
For 25 years, Aviva Segall had held her “dream job” as music director and principal conductor for the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras.
Segall works nationally as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician with a variety of professional orchestras, national conferences, all state and festival ensembles.
A small sample of groups she recently worked with include the Omaha Symphony, ASTA national conference, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Wisconsin middle level All State Orchestra and school districts throughout the country. She served on the board of directors for the American Symphony Orchestra League- Youth Orchestra Division, the Nebraska Music Education Association and on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts.
She served as conducting apprentice with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and was concurrently on the conducting staff of the Portland Youth Philharmonic.
Segall studied at Wellesley College, the University of Southern California, and Northwestern University as well as training at the Aspen Music Festival.
Her Thomas J. Watson Fellowship studied rehearsal techniques in Europe.
Segall's principal conducting mentors include Victor Yampolsky, Daniel Lewis, Murry Sidlin, and James De Priest.