Chloé Meyzie is a passionate musician and born leader renowned for her energy and ability to lead the orchestra with “inspiration, precision and a clear and bright vision”.
In the 2025–2026 season, she is invited to conduct the Orchestre National des Pays-de-la-Loire, Orchestre National d’Avignon-Provence, Orchestre National Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and the Opéra de Limoges. Her previous season included notable debuts with the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Opéra-Orchestre National de Montpellier, and the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. She also conducted the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Limoges / Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Festival Éclats d’Émail Jazz, the Orchestre du Pays-Basque, the Philharmonia Opolska (Poland), and the Orchestre Symphonique de l’Opéra de Tours.
With an eclectic musical journey and a 360° artistic vision, Chloé embraces a broad spectrum of repertoires from contemporary creation to the rediscovery of heritage works, with a strong affinity for French music. Her artistic commitments also include interdisciplinary collaborations, such as urban cantatas with hip-hop dancers, electro-symphonic odysseys, cross-cultural symphonic hybrids, and creations for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra showcasing a bold and singular artistic voice.
Deeply committed to large-scale operatic productions, she founded the Opéra Périgord-Dordogne in 2021 an innovative project dedicated to the production and regional diffusion of operas. 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 over 30,000 spectators. In the 2026 season, she will conduct Puccini’s La Bohème.
Since 2024, she has served as Music Director of the Festival 1001 Notes Symphony Orchestra. That same year, she was selected by the Fitelberg Competition to collaborate with the FilharmoniaŚląska (Poland). In 2023, she was selected by Cristian Măcelaru as Associate Conductor for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California (USA), and also took part in a masterclass with the Romanian Chamber Orchestra in Timişoara.
Described as a “conductor with fiery energy”, she received the Trophée Joséphine awarded by the Région Pays de la Loire. She was a finalist in the Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition (UK) and received the BMI Award at the 2021 International Conducting Competition Bucharest.
In 2021, she was appointed Artistic and Music Director of the Ensemble Instrumental de la Mayenne, where she develops symphonic projects in dialogue with other artistic genres.
Chloé regularly collaborates with European orchestras and festivals, including La Folle Journée, Festival international de violoncelle de Beauvais, Nuits de la Mayenne, Music in the Alps (Austria), Opéra de Massy, Orchestre Colonne (Paris), Danubia Orchestra Obuda and the Budapest Music Center (Hungary), the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Chamber Orchestra, and Camerata Regala.
She has worked with renowned conductors such as Cristian Măcelaru, Marin Alsop, Peter Eötvös, Jorma Panula, Riccardo Frizza, Patrick Fournillier, and Christian Ehwald.
She completed her conducting studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. She also holds a PhD in musicology (Université de Tours, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France).
