Ms. Segev made her Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall playing Dvorak's cello concerto with the Juilliard Symphony. Elsewhere in North America, solo engagements have included concertos with the Cape Cod Symphony, the Lawton Philharmonic and the Banff Festival Chamber Players, among others. Given her interpretative artistry and virtuosic technique, Inbal is often asked to premiere new works. She gave the American premiere of Sir Arthur Sullivan's cello concerto and performed David Baker's cello concerto at Town Hall in New York City. Max Schubel wrote a cello concerto especially for her.

Ms. Segev devotes much of her time to chamber music and has collaborated with such artists as Emanuel Ax, Glenn Dicterow, Augustin Dumay, Pamela Franck, Gilbert Kalish, Michael Tree and the Vogler Quartet. Recent recitals and chamber music performances have included engagements at the Dumbarton concert series (Washington DC), the Tannery Pond series (upstate NY), Israel's Tel Aviv Museum, Bargemusic (NY), the Kosciuszko Foundation (NY), the Guggenheim Museum (NY), the Maine Center for the Arts and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, where she gave her debut recital in 1997. Ms. Segev has been a member of the Jupiter Chamber Players since 2005 and previously toured with the American Chamber Players, a piano quintet, throughout the United States.

Ms. Segev's third solo CD, a compilation of Jewish music, was released under the Vox label in April 2004. Her other solo recordings include Boccherini and Beethoven sonatas and the cello concerto written for her by Max Schubel, recorded with the Polish Radio National Symphony. Both recordings are under the "Opus One" label. She also recorded excerpts for the movie sound track of "Bee Season", starring Richard Gere.

Since first receiving the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship at age seven, Ms. Segev has received numerous prizes and awards. Ms. Segev claimed prizes at the Pablo Casals International competition in Kronberg (2000), The Juilliard Concerto competition (1998), the Paulo International competition in Helsinki (1996), and the Washington International competition (1995), among others.

Ms. Segev appears regularly in live broadcasts. She has appeared on Radio France, Helsinki Television, NPR in Washington and New York, WQXR in New York, the Myra Hess concert series in Chicago and "Kol Hamusica" in Jerusalem. Ms. Segev has also performed in festivals around the globe. She has played at and participated in the Banff, Ravinia, Bowdoin, Olympic and Cape & Islands festivals in North America, the Sienna, Rolandseck and Montpelier festivals in Europe, and Jerusalem's "Mishkenot Sha'ananim" and the Upper Galilee festivals in Israel.

Ms. Segev began her studies in Israel and, with the recommendation of Isaac Stern, came to the United States to continue her studies at the age of 16. She holds a Bachelor's degree from The Juilliard School and a Master's degree from Yale University, where her teachers included Joel Krosnick, Harvey Shapiro and Aldo Parisot. She also studied with Bernard Greenhouse.

Ms. Segev's Cello was made by Francesco Rugeri in 1673.

In April 2006, Opus Two made its Asian debut, with recitals, concerto appearances and master classes throughout China, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East, in such locales as Beijing, Tianjin, Nanning, Shenzhen, Seoul, Sapporo, Okinawa, Kobe, Kanazawa, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, among others. Highlights of recent seasons include the ensemble’s debut at London’s St. John’s, Smith Square, following which The Strad remarked that “violinist William Terwilliger played with supreme tenderness and finely judged control and was partnered with assurance and sensitivity by Andrew Cooperstock.” Opus Two’s recent festival appearances include performances at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (Queensland), Piccolo Spoleto (South Carolina), the Round Top International Festival-Institute (Texas), and Brevard Music Festival (North Carolina).

Opus Two’s radio and television credits include appearances on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and Chicago’s WFMT, the BBC, Radio France, Radio Latvia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Their South American tours have also included appearances on television in the Dominican Republic and Bolivia.

Champions of American music, Opus Two has performed Aaron Copland’s complete works for violin and piano extensively across the United States and abroad. The duo’s recording of this same music (Azica Records) features works never before recorded, including two early, unpublished preludes. Of this recording American Record Guide remarks that “it would be hard to imagine finer performances of these works.” Leading Aaron Copland biographer Howard Pollack applauds the duo’s “utterly compelling performances of Copland’s music for violin and piano, full of tenderness and sensitivity in slower passages and vigor and buoyancy in faster ones.” The ensemble’s most recent recording, Chamber Music of Lowell Liebermann, features performances with cellist Andres Diaz and the Ying Quartet, and was praised as “splendid” by Strings magazine. Earlier this year, the two won a grant from the American Music Center’s Aaron Copland Recording Fund, which will be used to release Souvenirs: Music of Paul Schoenfield in the 2006/07 season. Opus Two’s discography also includes two discs of works of Robert Starer, one of which features the world premiere recording of Dispositions with clarinetist Martha MacDonald, a work that was composed especially for them.

In addition to their concerts as Opus Two, William Terwilliger and Andrew Cooperstock frequently join forces with Martha MacDonald as members of Trio Contraste. The Trio has been honored with the Centennial Chamber Music Award for Outstanding Promotion of American Music from the National Federation of Music Clubs. Additionally, William Terwilliger and Andrew Cooperstock have collaborated together or individually with members of the Takács, Emerson, and Juilliard String Quartets and the Dorian Wind Quintet, violinists Oleh Krysa and James Buswell, cellists Lynn Harrell and Yehuda Hanani, and hornists Eli Epstein of the Cleveland Orchestra, William VerMeulen of the Houston Symphony and Jerome Ashby of the New York Philharmonic.

Opus Two has commissioned a number of additions to the chamber music repertoire including Sonata Lunaris by John Fitz Rogers, and with Martha MacDonald, Meditations on Yeats by Donald Grantham for Trio Contraste, among others. The list of awards and grants to their credit includes grants from the American Music Center, Chamber Music America, the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Arts International Fund, to name but a few.

Andrew Cooperstock serves as chair of the keyboard department at the University of Colorado. In addition to his concerts with Opus Two he has the distinction of having performed as soloist or chamber player in most of the fifty states. He has also given lectures and recitals at the Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler in Berlin, Germany, the Academy of Music in Riga, Latvia, and the Universities of Bordeaux and Nice in France, among others. William Terwilliger is professor of violin and director of chamber music at the University of South Carolina. He has held a faculty position at the University of Toledo and given master classes on four continents in addition to directing the annual USC String Quartet Workshop. Both regularly present for national meetings of such organizations as the American String Teachers Association, the College Music Society and the National Federation of Music Clubs. In 2005, they were jurors at the Music Teachers National Association National Competition in Seattle, Washington.

William Terwilliger and Andrew Cooperstock also have the distinction of being published authors and have written articles for Strings, American String Teacher and Keyboard Companion, among others.

William Terwilliger received his doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, and Andrew Cooperstock is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the Cincinnati and Peabody Conservatories.

Ms. Draina teaches studio voice and vocal pedagogy at University of Colorado-Boulder, and is a respected pedagogue specializing in Body Mapping and somatic education of singers. Her research on training kinesthesia has earned her invitations to present at the New Vocal Educators Symposium at Indiana University in 2007 and at the International Phenomenon of Singing Symposium in Newfoundland this summer. She is an active member of Andover Educators, now based in California, working to promote the health and abilities of musicians through somatic and sensory training; at CU-Boulder’s College of Music she plays an integral role in the growing Musicians’ Wellness Initiative. Ms. Draina holds DMA and MM degrees from the University of Colorado–Boulder and Westminster Choir College. She taught at Princeton Theological Seminary and Drew University in her native New Jersey before moving to Boulder, where she lives with her husband Matt and their two cats.

Cobus held the principal position in the National Youth Orchestra which toured to Germany for the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. Performance venues included the Berlin Philharmonie under the baton of famed conductor Herbert Blomstedt. Other orchestral experience includes the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, University of Pretoria Symphony Orchestra, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra and the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

Cobus holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at the University of Colorado under Christina Jennings. For more information please visit www.cobusdutoit.com

Mr. Fleg is currently on the faculty of the University of Wyoming.  He has presented master-classes and clinics throughout the country and abroad at places such as the University of Kansas, Iowa State University, Archipelago Summer Festival and Carleton College.  Jerome has been featured as an adjudicator in competitions such as the National MTNA Competition, Aurora Symphony Concerto Competition, and Colorado Youth Symphony Concerto Competition.  He holds Bachelor’s degrees in clarinet performance and music education from the Peabody Conservatory and a Master's degree in clarinet performance from the University of Northern Colorado. His principal teachers have included: Bil Jackson, Andy Stevens, Mark Nuccio, Steven Barta, Dan Silver and Bill Welty.

As a member of the Antero Winds (wind quintet), Mr. Fleg won 1st Prize in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition and silver medal in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.  The group has also participated residencies with the Aspen Music Festival and the FESNOJIV Youth Orchestra Program in Venezuela.  This ensemble has recently performed in New York, Minnesota, and Venezuela and has upcoming concerts in Canada, New Mexico, and throughout Colorado.  The Antero Winds have been described as “an inspiring young quintet of young musicians that exude energy.” 

Mr. Fleg has received awards such as the 1st place in the University of Northern Colorado Orchestra Concerto Competition, “Best Should Teach” silver award from the University of Colorado, Dean's Scholarship from the University of Northern Colorado, and the "Martha and William Bill" Memorial Prize at the Peabody Conservatory.  Also an avid conductor, Mr. Fleg is the conductor of Colorado Youth Symphony's Philharmonia Wind Ensemble, assistant conductor of their Philharmonia Orchestra, and has served as conductor for the Archipelago Music Festival.

Highlights of recent seasons include performances with the Colorado Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, both conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, as well as a performance with the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal, conducted by Boris Brott, the Knoxville Symphony conducted by Lucas Richman, and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra with Jung-Ho Pak conducting. Other recent performances include the Fort Worth Symphony, Las Cruces, New West, San Diego Symphony, Redlands, Palm Springs, National Academy and Oakville Symphonies in Canada, and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. She made her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut performing John Corigliano’s Red Violin Chaconne with the California Philharmonic.

Ms. Deutsch made her solo orchestral debut at the age of 11 with the Clear Lake Symphony in Texas. As a recitalist, she has appeared on the prestigious Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, the Los Angeles Da Camera Society at the historic Doheny Mansion, at L.A.’s Gindi Auditorium, as guest artist at the PepsiCo Recital Hall at Texas Christian University, and several solo performances for the Leonard Nimoy Concert Series. In addition, she performed a recital at the Colorado Symphony Spring Ball with Jeffrey Kahane. Ms. Deutsch has also appeared at Boston’s Jordan Hall, Houston’s Wortham Theatre, Theatre Aquarius in Toronto, Canada and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles where she performed excerpts of Mark O’Connor’s “Strings and Threads” with the composer and the Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra. She was honored by being invited to perform the theme from “Schindler’s List” for John Williams at a gala dinner in his honor.

As chamber musician, Ms. Deutsch has appeared at the La Jolla Summerfest and the Green Music Festival collaborating with artists Gil Shaham, Jeffrey Kahane, Adele Anthony, Cho-Liang Lin, Sheryl Staples, Arnold Steinhardt, Chee-Yun, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Alisa Weilerstein, Gary Hoffman, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

The internationally known Strad Magazine featured Ms. Deutsch as their pick of “Up-and-Coming Musicians” in their April 2007 issue. Her movie credits include playing the solo violin sound track for the 2006 movie “The Good Shepherd” starring Robert De Niro. She has also collaborated and is the featured “Pro” on the newly released See-Like-Me, Play Like a Pro DVD violin instruction series. Ms. Deutsch's performance of Astor Piazzolla's "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra was selected for NPR's Symphony Cast program. Ms. Deutsch has also appeared as a soloist on the national radio program, From the Top in which her performance of Bartok’s Roumanian Folk Dances with Christopher O’Riley was selected for inclusion on the “Best of” CD produced by From the Top. She was featured on Live From WFMT in Chicago and her performance of Vivaldi”s “Summer” with the Colburn Conservatory Orchestra was presented on the Sunday’s Live Series (K-Mozart radio), as well as numerous other performances airing on several National Public Radio stations including Performance Today which featured her in a performance of the Prokofiev “Duo for Two Violins” with Chee-Yun.

Ms. Deutsch feels strongly that the young people of today need to be exposed to the world of classical music. She is actively involved in outreach programs to present classical music in new and exciting ways that will thrill and inspire the young audiences of today. She also has a page on her website specifically aimed at young musicians and their parents which attracts 70,000 hits per month. She has garnered corporate support for this site which encourages young musicians and selects a “Student Musician of the Month” which highlights and recognizes outstanding musicians from all over the U.S. and Canada. In 2007, she and her sister, Lauren, co-founded a non-profit organization, Classics Alive (www.ClassicsAlive.org), dedicated to building classical music audiences. Classics Alive is currently developing a new web site which will allow student musicians from 4 to 18 to upload videos of their performances to be viewed by fellow young musicians from around the world.

In addition to her music, Lindsay Deutsch was a formidable racquetball player. She won the gold medal in the World Junior Olympic Racquetball Championships in 1997 and was selected to the 2000 U.S. Junior Olympic Team.

Lindsay Deutsch currently studies with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory. She plays on a 1742 Sanctus Seraphin on generous loan from the Mandell Collection of Southern California.

Larry Graham has subsequently played over 35 different concerti in performances with orchestras both here and abroad;  There have been numerous solo engagements as well.  After hearing him, Paul Hume of the Washington Post declared that Mr. Graham “…will emerge as one of the finest of our new generation of pianists.”  His mastery of the repertoire encompasses a full range of piano works from Bach through Stravinsky.  Mr. Graham avoids both the hyper-emotional theatricality, and the “authentic” sterility that are currently in vogue.  “No formula can ever replace sincere and discerning music-making”, he comments.

In addition to his activities as a soloist, Graham has also performed extensively with chamber music ensembles along with such artists as Gil Shaham, Arnold Steinhardt, and Ransom Wilson.  He has also appeared with the Guarneri, Takacs, and Tokyo string quartets. For eleven years, Larry Graham was the pianist for the highly acclaimed Pablo Casals Trio, the only ensemble that Mr. Casals personally lent his name to.

 Larry Graham received his training at the Juilliard School in New York as scholarship student of Rosina Lhevinne and Martin Canin.  Early successes in piano competitions such as the Kosciusko, Bloch and G.B.Dealey resulted in his debut with Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1965.   In 1969  Mr. Graham won the Concert Artists auditions which led to his debut at New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall.  As a teacher, Mr. Graham has had abundant distinction, his students having competed successfully at local, state and international levels.  For 25 years he was Professor of piano at the University of Colorado and continues working with gifted pre-college students.

Larry balances his love of teaching and performing with an active outdoors life.  An avid runner, backpacker, and rock climber, he recently completed the ascent of all fifty-four 14,000 foot peaks in Colorado.  In 1984, Mr. Graham was the subject of a national PBS documentary that explored the relationship between the two very diverse disciplines that he has pursued.