Frédéric Chaine is a French conductor and violinist. He is the founder and musical director of the Ensemble Orchestral Européen, which he created in 2022 to bring young audiences closer to classical music and promote European musical talents.

Since its inception, the Ensemble Orchestral Européen has been invited by Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege and various cultural centers in Brussels, including Le Senghor and Centre Culturel d’Uccle. Under Frédéric Chaine’s direction, the ensemble has also performed at the music festival “Les Rendez-vous Musicaux” for two consecutive years and was honoured by an invitation from the the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union to perform at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels in 2024.

Convinced that classical music must be accessible to everyone, Frédéric Chaine regularly creates and performs innovative educational concerts across Belgium and Switzerland. In October 2023, he performed four concerts of “Mozart fait son show” in Brussels’s cultural centers for an audience of 1200 children. Next October, he will return with another didactical concert, “L’Apprenti Sorcier”. Additionally, in recent years, he has conducted “Joue-la comme Mozart” and “L’Apprenti Sorcier” at Lausanne’s renowned “Musique entre les lignes” festival.

Frédéric Chaine believes in the positive impact of sharing music and strives to make classical music an integral part of contemporary culture. His goal is to encourage different audiences to discover it through innovative educational concerts as well as projects merging symphony orchestra and jazz soloists.

Born in 1992 in Avignon, Frédéric Chaine started studying conducting in France with Dominique Rouits and Julien Masmondet at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris as well as with Jean Sébastien Béreau at the Conservatory of Lille.

He later studied at the Haute école de Musique de Lausanne in the class of Aurélien Azan Zielinski and Philippe Béran where he obtained a master’s degree with the congratulations of the jury. He has also followed master classes with Bertrand de Billy, Jorma Panula, Johannes Schlaefli, Etienne Siebens, Grant Llewellyn, Samuel Jean, William Blank and Leonid Grin.

Frédéric Chaine was a semi-finalist at the conducting competition “Orchestra’s Conductor” in Brasov as well as at the international conducting competition of Almeria. He has also been the assistant conductor of Jérôme Pillement with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence during the project “Legrand Ecran”.