Praised for her clarity on the podium and her infectious enthusiasm, Chloe came to international attention after winning the Contemporary Award at the first International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam in May 2022 and the Audience Prize at the Donatella Flick-LSO Conducting Competition in 2021. She was subsequently invited several times to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in family concerts at the Barbican and made her mark conducting the London Sinfonietta and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the BBC Proms in August 2024.
Guesting highlights of 24/25 include debuts with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Aurora Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Noord Nederlands Orkest, in addition to conducting the Grup Instrumental at Palau de les Arts Valencia as part of the ENSEMS Festival; and recently conducted Orchestre National de Lille, BBC Concert Orchestra and London Mozart Players.
Equally at home on the opera stage, Chloe will conduct a production of L’elisir d’amore at Garsington in Summer 2025, having assisted in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2024. Last season, Chloe made her Opera North debut assisting and conducting performances of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, in addition to conducting a production of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at Amare with Residentie Orkest and singers from the Dutch National Opera Academy in Summer 2023. She has previously assisted at Glyndebourne Festival on Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, at Nancy on Magic Flute, and with A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opera Rouen. She will return to conduct Opera Rouen in concerts on a regional tour.
Her position as Assistant Conductor at the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic (supporting their Chief Conductor Karina Canellakis, in addition to John Adams and Edo de Waart among others) followed upon two years of post-graduate study on the Dutch National Master in Orchestral Conducting, where she was mentored by Jac Van Steen, Kenneth Montgomery, Ed Spanjaard and Antony Hermus. Prior to that she studied under Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy in London, where she was awarded the Ernst Read Conducting prize and Fred Southall Memorial prize and an MA in Orchestral Conducting (Distinction).
Passionate about music’s role in bringing social transformation, Chloe is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Street Orchestra Live (the UK’s first street orchestra), her association dating back to 2019. SOL holds the mantra ‘Music for everyone, anywhere’, touring each year to parts of England with limited access to the arts. Each performance exudes the ensemble’s core ethos: to share the joy of music in the every-day and invite unassuming passers-by to join in the party for a moment in time.
Chloe began her conducting journey with a passion to bring people together to forge meaningful relationships and powerful performances, initially working with student and amateur orchestras at Oxford (where she graduated with first class honours in 2018) and in London.
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