Chloe Rooke

Last season Chloe conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in family concerts and debuted with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducting several world premieres by young British composers, invited back for a concert at Saffron Hall in January 2023.

In Autumn 2022 she was invited by the London Sinfonietta to conduct in their Homage to Takemitsu concert at Kings Place, and she conducted the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and their concert master in the rarely performed violin concerto of Benedict Silberman (written in 1925).

This Summer she assisted at the Glyndebourne Festival on Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, having already assisted on Magic Flute in Nancy and with Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream coming up at Opera Rouen. After conducting Cosi fan Tutte in her own right with the Dutch National Opera Academy at in Amsterdam in July 2022, she was invited back to conduct La Finta Giardiniera in Summer 2023, this time with the Residentie Orkest in the pit.

Chloe spent 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 was recently announced as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Street Orchestra Live (the UK’s first street orchestra), her association dating back to 2019.

Photo credit Agnete Schlichtkrull