Chloé Meyzie
Conductor
Biography
A passionate musician and born leader, Chloé Meyzie is renowned for her energy and ability to lead the orchestra with precision and inspiration.
During the 2024-25 season, Chloé has been invited by the Orchestre de Bretagne, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Limoges, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Orchestre du Pays Basque, and the Orchestre de l’Oise. She will also participate in the 1001 Notes Festival with an original project, an electro-symphonic odyssey in collaboration with DJ Degiheugi.
In 2023, she was a semi-finalist at the Siemens Hallé International Conductor Competition in Manchester (UK), and was selected by Cristian Macelaru to participate in the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz as well as in his Masterclass in Timisoara with the Romanian Chamber Orchestra. Winner of the 2021 International Conducting Competition in Bucharest, where she received the BMI Award (Bucharest Music Institute), she was also a 2019 winner of the Danube Conducting Competition in Budapest.
In 2021, she was appointed Artistic and Musical Director of the Ensemble Instrumental de la Mayenne.
Chloé Meyzie is involved in major projects. In 2021, she became the project manager of Labopéra Périgord-Dordogne, a cooperative opera project.
After conducting Carmen in 2022, in front of 7,000 spectators, she followed with La Traviata in 2023 and West Side Story in 2024, which was a huge success with over 8,000 spectators!
In recent years, she has collaborated with numerous festivals and conducted orchestras in Europe. These include the Orchestre Colonne (Paris), the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Opéra de Massy-Paris Sud, the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, the Danubia Orchestra, the Romanian Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Regala, the Oise Philharmonic Orchestra, the La Folle Journée festival in Nantes, the Beauvais International Cello Festival, and the Musiques dans les Alpes festival.
Chloé has been selected for masterclasses with renowned conductors such as Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, Peter Eötvös, Jorma Panula, Christian Ehwald, and Riccardo Frizza.
Chloé Meyzie studied conducting in Paris. She also holds degrees from the Paris-Sorbonne University and the University of Tours. She holds a doctorate in music and musicology.
Photo credit : Daina Moïca
Press
Symphonic Origins: Enamel Shards Festival 2024
“Chloé Meyzie creates, in each of her gestures, a kind of silent magic, an alchemy between the rigor necessary for an orchestra and the assumed freedom of a quartet accustomed to sidesteps. The accordionist and the conductor are back to back, and yet, together, they sublimate the music of Origines. It is grander, more vibrant, more human.”
By Alexandre Fournet
Festival 1001 Notes/ Degiheugi orchestra
“She delivers this evening with a mixture of precision and passion that carries the audience and the orchestra with her. We note here the attention she pays to each of the instrumental soloists with great modesty, for example by highlighting the brass, which accompanies the score in sound and movement, with dynamism and energy.”
Classykéo 2024
Interview France Inter 2/11/23
“Democratizing lyrical art, bringing audiences to the opera who wouldn’t necessarily go to the opera: the intention is laudable, but it still needs to be effective. Here’s an example that’s a hit: LabOpéra, a show that mixes amateurs and professionals, with very professional standards.”
RadioFrance
Interview SudOuest 24/04/21
“The Labopéra Périgord-Dordogne is born. Its first production will be Bizet’s “Carmen.” A popular work, it has the advantage of being in French. “The story resonates with the present era. It is that of a free woman.” Performances are scheduled for April 2 and 3…”
By Chantal Gibert
Dordogne Libre 14/04/21
The Labopéra Dordogne-Périgord project is led by the conductor Chloé Meyzie, originally from Thiviers. Four similar Labopéras already exist in France, in the Oise, Grand Est, and Ile-de-France regions. “This is the first in the greater Southwest,” says the conductor from Mayenne.
Dordogne Libre
Interview France Bleu 1/04/21
“This Labopéra project also aims to promote the technical and professional training of our high school students and apprentices in set design, costume design, makeup and video production.”
By Julien De Jong