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Inbal studied violin at the Israeli Academy of Music and took composition lessons with Paul Ben-Haim.

Upon hearing him there, Leonard Bernstein endorsed a scholarship for Inbal to study conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris, and he also took courses with Sergiu Celibidache and Franco Ferrara in Hilversum, Netherlands.

At Novara, he won first prize at the 1963 Guido Cantelli conducting competition.