Frédéric Chaine is a French conductor and violinist. In 2022, he founded the Ensemble Orchestral Européen with the aim of promoting European talent and bringing classical music to a broader audience.

Since its inception in 2022, the Ensemble Orchestral Européen has been invited by Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege and various cultural centers in Belgium, including Le Senghor, Centre Culturel d’Uccle and Centre Culturel de Verviers. 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 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 both 2023 and 2024, he performed several concerts of “Mozart fait son show” and “L’Apprenti Sorcier” in cultural centers across Brussels for an audience of 2,500 children. In 2019 he conducted “Joue-la comme Mozart” at the renowned “Musique entre les lignes” festival in Lausanne.

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 orchestra and outstanding jazz improvisers. In April 2025, the Ensemble Orchestral Européen, under his direction, invited renowned jazz violinist Florin Niculescu for the premiere of the concert “Tribute to Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli” at the Brussels Bourse. Blending classical and jazz music, the program featured tunes by the legendary duo, arranged by Frédéric Chaine for string orchestra and jazz quartet.

Frédéric Chaine is an ambassador for the music of Henry Vieuxtemps. He was invited by the city of Verviers, Vieuxtemps’ birthplace, to conduct the premiere of the “Fantasy for Violin, Voice, and Orchestra”, a previously unknown work by the Belgian composer. The first performance of the Fantasy with orchestra took place on March 30, 2025, at Saint-Remacle Church in Verviers.
For this concert, soprano Faustine Egiziano and violinist Vilmos Csikos were accompanied by the European Orchestral Ensemble and the Orchestra of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, under the baton of Frédéric Chaine.

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 masterclasses 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. During the “With a Smile” project with the Orchestre National de Lyon, he was the assistant conductor of Frank Strobel. He also assisted Jérôme Pillement with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence during the tribute concert to Michel Legrand.