Yves Segers

After graduating high school, Yves Segers (Temse, 1978) studied during 10 years at the Royal Brussels Conservatory of Music (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel), where he obtained three master degrees for flute, wind band conducting, and symphony orchestra conducting, respectively with Carlos Bruneel, Norbert Nozy, and Silveer Van den Broeck. He also attended master classes with Emmanuel Pahud and Patrick Gallois. As a flutist, Yves Segers is laureate of several national and international competitions.

In the meantime, from the age of 17, Yves became a member of the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra of Flanders with which he made several concert tours (Canada, Italy, Russia, South Africa). In 2001, at the age of 22 and after succeeding the auditions, he joined the Royal Symphonic Band of the Guides as a flutist. In the meantime he performed with renowned orchestras and ensembles and with famous conductors such as Antonio Pappano and Kazushi Ono, also playing as a soloist in Belgium and abroad. He continued perfecting his conducting with great masters such as Norbert Nozy, Lucas Vis, Bart Bouckaert and Silveer Van den Broeck.

Since March 2008, Yves is the chief-conductor of the famous Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides. Yves Segers has conducted numerous concerts and outstanding recordings, often with prestigious and internationally renowned soloists, such as pianists Jean-Claude Vanden Eynde, Francois Glorieux, Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, Jan Michiels, Daniel Blumenthal and Eliane Rodrigues, the clarinetists Eddy Daniels, Walter Boeykens, Annelien Van Wauwe, Roeland Hendrickx and Paul Meyer, the violinists Andrey Baranov, Lorenzo Gatto, Sylvia Huang, Tatiana Samouil and Jenny Spanoghe, the cellists Santiago Canon-Valencia, Justus Grimm and Stéphanie Huang, the saxophonists Norbert Nozy, Simon Dirick and Pieter Pellens, and the Blindman Quartet.

Yves Segers has conducted many orchestras, including the Brussels Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium, Frascati Symphonic, the Banda Municipal of Bilbao, the Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Central Military Band of Russia with whom he conducted an exceptional concert at the Kremlin in Moscow.

At numerous concerts with the Guides Band, Yves conducted world premieres of new compositions by renowned Belgian and foreign composers, including Jacqueline Fontyn, Jan Van Landeghem, Frédéric Devreese, Francois Glorieux, Johan Hoogewijs, Robert Groslot, Wouter Lenaerts, Maarten De Splenter, Oscar Navarro, Alexandre Kosmicki, Philippe Lamouris, Benoit Chantry and Klaas Coulembier. He also recorded over thirty compacts discs with the band.

As a flutist he played with several orchestras and ensembles, including the Royal Symphonic Band of the Guides, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Royal Opera “La Monnaie”, the Prometheus Ensemble, the Walter Boeykens Ensemble, Il Novecento, Symphonic Factory, and the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra of Flanders.

He is professor of wind band conducting and conducting techniques at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels). He is frequently invited for giving masterclasses, and as a jury member for international orchestra and conductor competitions.

Short version

After graduating high school, Yves Segers studied for ten years at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels) and obtained three Master degrees for flute, wind band conducting and symphony orchestra conducting, with respectively Carlos Bruneel, Norbert Nozy and Silveer Van den Broeck. He also followed master classes with Emmanuel Pahud and Patrick Gallois, among others. Yves Segers is laureate of several competitions.

From the age of 17 he was a member and soloist of the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra of Flanders. In 2001, at the age of 22, after participating in the auditions, he joined as a flutist the Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides. During that time he also performed with numerous professional orchestras and ensembles, whilst performing as a soloist in Belgium and abroad.

Since March 2008, Yves Segers is the chief conductor of the renowned the Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides. He conducted many outstanding concerts and great recordings, together with internationally renowned soloists and artists. Yves has conducted many orchestras, including the Brussels Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium, Frascati Symphonic, the Banda Municipal of Bilbao, the Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Central Military Band of Russia during an exceptional concert in the Kremlin in Moscow. Yves has conducted the world premiere performances of numerous compositions of Belgian and foreign composers. In recognition of this continuous promotion of Belgian music, Yves Segers received in 2018 the Fuga Trophy from the association of Belgian composers.

He actually teaches wind band conducting and conducting techniques at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music, and is also regularly invited to give masterclasses and to make part of the adjudicators panel at international competitions for orchestras and conductors.