Conductor CHLOÉ VAN SOETERSTÈDE

Chloé van Soeterstède is attracting the attention of orchestras across the globe for her intuitive, sensitive, expressive music-making and her commanding and positive presence on the podium. She is praised repeatedly for her attention to detail, her energy and enthusiasm, and efficiency in rehearsal. In recent seasons she has made many debuts across Europe and North America, receiving many re-invitations and in the upcoming seasons she looks forward to further debuts in Scandinavia, the UK, Germany and Switzerland, the US, New Zealand and Australia. In January 2022 she joined the Orchestre d’Auvergne’s artistic team as Artist-in-Residence, alongside their Associate Conductors Enrico Onofri and Christian Zacharias, and Chief Conductor Thomas Zehetmair.

In 22/23 Van Soeterstède makes her debut with the London Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber, Finnish Radio Symphony, Geneva Chamber and Nordic Chamber orchestras amongst others, and returns to the Royal Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, Gävle Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon and the GiOrquesta for a production with La Fura dels Baus at the Portaferrada Festival.

Van Soeterstède conducts a wide range of repertoire from Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn through to Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Prokofiev. In 2019 she conducted the world premiere of Benjamin Attahir's Syrian Voices in France, and regularly programmes works by contemporary composers such as Jessie Montgomery, Roxanna Panufnik, Annamaria Kowalsky, Katarine Leyman and Anna Meredith. At the 2019 Deutscher Diringentenpreis in Cologne she was awarded the Bärenreiter Prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work, as well as Third Prize overall.

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