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. She is forging some excellent relationships with orchestras worldwide, and in 2024/25, she becomes the Principal Guest Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Highlights of Van Soeterstède's season include return engagements with Sweden's Norrköping Symphony, Gävle Symphony, and Nordic Chamber orchestras, and debuts with various orchestras across Europe including the Ulster Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Symphony, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, amongst others, and further afield with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As Principal Guest Conductor with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, she conducts them in two programmes of late Classical/early Romantic repertoire with soloists Alena Baeva and Pavel Kolesnikov.

In recent seasons, Van Soeterstède has conducted widely in the UK, France, Spain, and Sweden, in particular working with orchestras such as the BBC Scottish Symphony, London Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre National de Lille, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon, and RTVE Symphony Orchestra (Madrid). In 2023, she made hugely successful debuts in Australia and New Zealand with the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, and Auckland Philharmonia. Soloists with whom she is working include Sergey Khachatryan, Colin Currie, Alena Baeva, Kian Soltani, Jess Gillam, Javier Peraines, Peter Moore, and Tobias Feldmann.

Van Soeterstède conducts a wide range of repertoire from Farrenc, Mayer, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn, through to Sibelius, Ravel, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninov. In 2019, she conducted the world premiere of Benjamin Attahir's Syrian Voices in France, and in 2024, gave the NYC premiere of Dani Howard's Trombone Concerto with Peter Moore and the Orchestra NOW at Jazz Lincoln Center. She regularly programmes works by contemporary composers such as Anna Clyne, 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.

In 2012, she founded the Arch Sinfonia, a chamber orchestra based in London, which has been applauded for its vibrant and boundless energy, its wide range of repertoire and its initiatives to build bridges between artists and audience. Van Soeterstède also loves to work with young musicians, and as such works regularly with specialist music schools and conservatoires across the UK. Van Soeterstède was born in 1988 in France. After studying viola in Paris, and then at the Royal Academy of Music, she studied conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music (2015 – 2017) with Clark Rundell and Mark Heron, where she was awarded the Kennedy scholarship, and was also supported by the Derek Hill Foundation. She was appointed the Taki Alsop Fellow 2019 – 2021 by Marin Alsop, and was a Dudamel Fellow with the LA Philharmonic in the 2021/22 season. In 2023, she was awarded as an Associate Member of the Royal Northern College of Music.