Frederique Chauvet/ Photo: Laura Lombardi
Frédérique Chauvet studied modern flute at the conservatorium of Versailles, France, and baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatorium of The Hague. She also studied choral and orchestral conducting at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and in Paris with Pierre Cao.
As a flautist she has given concerts as well as radio and television performances with chamber ensembles and orchestras in Europe and the United States. She is first flute with Concerto d’Amsterdam, and performs as a guest with numerous baroque orchestras including the Taverner Players (Andrew Parrot), Die Rheinische Kantorei (Herman Max), Ensemble Philidor and the Deutsche Händel Solisten.
Chauvet performs on historical flutes from the renaissance to the romantic period: having a special fondness for the renaissance flute she was a founding member of The Attaignant Consort in 1998. As both flautist and artistic director she has lead productions of several French comic operas, especially Offenbach’s Le 66, Le voyage dans la Lune, Le Violoneux, – légende bretonne and Tromb’al-ca-zar, in opera houses and theatres in France and the Netherlands. Her last production, Gluck’s L’Ivrogne Corrigé, is programmed in Opéra-Bastille in 2012.
As a conductor Chauvet has conducted many baroque operas including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, King Arthur and The Fairy Queen, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Charpentier’s Médée, Rameau’s Dardanus and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Lully’s Armide.
