ALEXANDRA SEGAL

ALEXANDRA SEGAL

BIOGRAPHY

“It was the apotheosis of the evening at the Athenaeum. Alexandra Segal performed an extremely demanding concert with the vision of a great soloist. Her spontaneity is captivating. From delicate sonorities in pianissimo to accumulations of volcanic magma, she knows how to clarify or cloud the musical narrative, moving from one state of mind to another like a flake instantly melts on human skin.” – LiterNet

First prize winner of the world-renowned George Enescu International Piano Competition and laureate of numerous international competitions, Alexandra Segal enjoys an active career, giving concerts throughout Europe und the USA. She appeared at several notable venues such as the KKL Luzern, Romanian Athenaeum, Verdi Hall of Milano, and Kyiv Philharmonic. She was invited to music festivals like George Enescu Festival and Miami Piano Festival, and was broadcasted on Mezzo TV, as well as TVR Romania, Kan Kol HaMusica and National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine.

Alexandra has performed with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de la region de Murcia, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Chamber Orchestra, Dogma Chamber Orchestra, Donetsk Philharmonic Orchestra, L’Appassionata Chamber Orchestra, Elblag Chamber Orchestra, Pitesti Philharmonic Orchestra, Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra “Mihail Jora”, Raanana Symphonette Orchestra and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kensho Watanabe, Pascale Van Os, Felix Ardanaz, Vag Papian, Avi Ostrowsky, Yoav Talmi and more.

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Born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1995, she started her piano studies with prof. Natalie Tolpygo.

She obtained her Bachelor degree at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music with prof. Tomer Lev and her Master degrees at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar with prof. Balazs Szokolay and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with prof. Milana Chernyavska and prof. Joseph Breinl.

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Bucharest (Romania)

The apotheosis of the evening

… It was the apotheosis of the evening at the Athenaeum. Alexandra Segal performed an extremely demanding concert, with the vision of a great soloist. Her spontaneity is captivating. From delicate sonorities in pianissimo to accumulations of volcanic magma, she knows how to clarify or cloud the musical narrative, moving from one state of mind to another like a flake instantly melts on human skin. She knows how to create a steely, then smooth, aquatic, or bubbling sound; she wields the playful with kaleidoscopic images, moving swiftly to the grotesque, through figurations reminiscent of baubles, to catapult you into a zone of ascetic depth. Listening to her pianistic peroration, you try to run your mind after the musical ideas she whispers. But you find that the quickness of her thought is one that belongs only to the spirit, and you cannot reach her otherwise, with anything physically similar. It is fascinating how she speaks with dozens of vocal cords, transformed into the totality of the piano’s strings. The variations in the second part sounded splendid, dominated by the sarcasm typical of Prokofiev’s music. I perceived galloping rhythms, syncopated formulas, rapid sweeps of the entire piano keyboard, hints of jazz, alternating with haunting meditations on the main theme. The Finale sung with dizzying virtuosity. And the Coda exploded into a musical battle between soloist and orchestra, with prominent piano flourishes flying over the orchestra. That famous and difficult double-note arpeggio was simply pulverized.

(LiterNet, Marcel Frandeș)

Bachtrack | Bucharest (Romania)

The vulnerability of being centre stage

It’s always comforting, as a mere arm-chair viewer with no axe to grind, to find oneself in full accord with the jury. Alexandra Segal’s dazzling performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op.26 at the Grand Final of the Enescu International Competition for the Piano Section, left us in little doubt as to the eventual winner. Hers was an extraordinarily virtuosic, buoyant rendition, impressing with both its intelligence and power, showing her to be flawlessly in command not only of her instrument but of her relationship with the orchestra.

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- Prokofiev - Piano sonata no. 7 op.83 | Alexandra Segal
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SHOSTAKOVICH 120 | Alexandra Segal & Madrid Soloists tribute to Shostakovich 120 Anniversary (copy)

26/10/2026

Alexandra Segal wins the 2022 George Enescu International Piano Competition

02/10/2022