Chloé Meyzie
Conductor
Biography
A passionate musician and natural leader, Chloé Meyzie is recognized for her energy and her ability to guide the orchestra with “a clear and luminous vision, precision, and inspiration.”
In the 2025/26 season, she is invited by the Orchestre National des Pays-de-la-Loire, the Orchestre National d’Avignon-Provence, the Orchestre National d’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and the Opéra de Limoges. The previous season marked her debuts with the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Opéra-Orchestre National de Montpellier, and the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. She has also been invited by the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Limoges/Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Éclats d’Émail Jazz Festival, the Orchestre du Pays Basque, the Philharmonia Opolska (Poland), and the Orchestre Symphonique de l’Opéra de Tours.
Her eclectic path and 360° artistic vision allow her to engage in a wide constellation of projects. She champions contemporary creation as much as the rediscovery of heritage repertoire, with a particular affinity for French music. She is also involved in numerous cross-disciplinary projects: an urban cantata with hip-hop dancers, an electro-symphonic odyssey, symphonic encounters with extra-European musical traditions, and works for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra — all illustrating an open, innovative, and distinctive artistic approach.
Chloé is also deeply committed to opera. In 2021, she founded the Opéra Périgord-Dordogne, an innovative initiative dedicated to creating and presenting opera in the region. Since then, she has conducted Bizet’s Carmen (2022), Verdi’s La Traviata (2023), Bernstein’s West Side Story (2024), and Verdi’s Nabucco (2025), attracting nearly 30,000 spectators. In the upcoming season, she will conduct Puccini’s La Bohème (2026).
Since 2024, Chloé has been Music Director of the Festival 1001 Notes Symphony Orchestra. That same year, she was selected by the Fitelberg Competition to collaborate with the Filharmonia Śląska (Poland). In 2023, Cristian Măcelaru appointed her Associate Conductor at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California (USA) and for his masterclass with the Romanian Chamber Orchestra in Timișoara.
Described as a “conductor with fiery energy,” she received the Joséphine Trophy from the Pays de la Loire Region. She is a finalist of the Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition (UK) and a recipient of the BMI Award at the 2021 Bucharest International Conducting Competition.
In 2021, she was appointed Artistic and Music Director of the Ensemble Instrumental de la Mayenne.
She collaborates regularly with numerous orchestras and festivals in Europe, including La Folle Journée, Festival International de Violoncelle de Beauvais, Nuits de la Mayenne, Music in the Alps Festival (Austria), Opéra de Massy, Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Oise, Orchestre Colonne (Paris), Danubia Orchestra Obuda and Budapest Music Center (Hungary), Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Chamber Orchestra, and Camerata Regala (Romania).
She has worked alongside renowned conductors such as Cristian Măcelaru, Marin Alsop, Peter Eötvös, Jorma Panula, Riccardo Frizza, Patrick Fournillier, and Christian Ehwald.
Chloé holds the Advanced Diploma in Conducting from the École Normale de Musique de Paris. She also earned a PhD in Music and Musicology from the University of Tours and is a graduate of the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
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