Biography

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

With his ensemble, Frédéric Chaine creates and conducts educational concerts for young audiences across Belgium. His productions have been presented by W:Halll, Centre Culturel d’Uccle, Le Senghor, La Maison Qui Chante, Espace Toots, and the “Musique entre les lignes” Festival. His latest production, Les Secrets d’un Opéra : La Flûte enchantée, received the label of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

An arranger and jazz musician, Frédéric Chaine leads projects that bring together the orchestra and jazz soloists. In April 2026, he conducted the premiere of Take the Swing Train at the Brussels Bourse with the Ensemble Orchestral Européen, featuring jazz soloists Florin Niculescu and Yves Brouqui.

Frédéric Chaine conducted the orchestra of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel for the premiere of Henry Vieuxtemps’s Fantasy for Violin, Voice and Orchestra. During the With a Smile project with the Orchestre National de Lyon, he worked as assistant conductor to Frank Strobel. He also assisted Jérôme Pillement with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence and Stefano Visconti with the Choir of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

Frédéric Chaine was a semi-finalist in the Orchestra’s Conductor and University of Almería international conducting competitions.

He holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where he studied with Aurélien Azan Zielinski and Philippe Béran.