Chloé Meyzie
Conductor
Biography
A passionate musician and natural leader, French conductor Chloé Meyzie is recognised for her energy and her ability to lead an orchestra with “a clear and luminous vision”. Her eclectic artistic journey spans contemporary music and the great symphonic repertoire, while her commitment to cross-disciplinary projects reflects an open-minded and innovative approach to music-making.
During the 2026–2027 season, she makes appearances with the Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, the Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Opéra de Nice, where she will conduct Lise de la Salle in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and the Opéra de Limoges.
In 2026, she was selected as a mentee for the prestigious Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship and for the Cycle des Hautes Études de la Culture, a programme run by the French Ministry of Culture. She also joins the Jette Parker Programme at the Royal Opera House in London and the Women Opera Makers programme at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
In previous seasons, Chloé made her debuts with several French national orchestras, including those of Pays de la Loire, Avignon-Provence, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bretagne and Bordeaux-Aquitaine. She has also conducted the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Limoges, the Orchestre du Pays Basque, the Orchestre symphonique de l’Opéra de Tours and the Filharmonia Opolska in Poland, as well as appearing at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Since 2021, Chloé has been the artistic driving force behind Opéra Dordogne-Périgord, an innovative initiative dedicated to bringing opera productions to audiences across the region. Under her direction, the project has presented Bizet’s Carmen (2022), Verdi’s La Traviata (2023), Bernstein’s West Side Story (2024), Verdi’s Nabucco (2025) and Puccini’s La Bohème (2026), attracting nearly 35,000 spectators. In April 2027, she will conduct Singin’ in the Rain.
In 2024, Chloé was selected by the Fitelberg International Conducting Competition to conduct the Filharmonia Śląska in Poland. In 2023, Cristian Măcelaru appointed her Associate Conductor of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in the United States. She also took part in his conducting masterclass with the Romanian Chamber Orchestra.
She was a finalist in the Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition in the UK and received the BMI Award at the 2021 Bucharest International Conducting Competition.
Since 2021, Chloé has served as Artistic and Music Director of the Ensemble Instrumental de la Mayenne, creating symphonic projects that bring music into dialogue with other art forms.
In recent years, she has conducted and collaborated with numerous orchestras and festivals across Europe, including the Orchestre Colonne in Paris; the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda and Budapest Music Center in Hungary; the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Chamber Orchestra and Camerata Regală in Romania; the Opéra de Massy; La Folle Journée de Nantes; the Festival 1001 Notes; the Beauvais International Cello Festival; Les Nuits de la Mayenne; and the Music in the Alps Festival in Austria.
She has worked with renowned conductors including Cristian Măcelaru, Marin Alsop, Peter Eötvös, Jorma Panula, Riccardo Frizza, Patrick Fournillier, Paul Murphy and Christian Ehwald.
Chloé holds an advanced diploma in orchestral conducting from the École Normale de Musique de Paris. She also graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University and the University of Tours, where she earned a PhD in Music and Musicology.
Photo credit : Daina Moïca, Sylvain Gripoix
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