Pieter-Jelle de Boer is a Dutch-French conductor, pianist, organist, and composer whose musical personality defies easy labelling. Equally at ease with repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary music, he is known for crafting thoughtful and surprising programmes that bring orchestras and audiences closer together, always aiming to create authentic and engaging musical experiences.

Based in France, he has conducted many of the country’s leading orchestras, including the Orchestre National de France and the orchestras of Toulouse, Bordeaux, Metz, Pays de la Loire, Avignon, and Picardie. In the Netherlands, he is a frequent guest with orchestras such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Residentie Orkest, the South Netherlands Philharmonic, and the North Netherlands Orchestra. He has worked with major performers such as Bertrand Chamayou, Gautier Capuçon, Adélaïde Ferrière, Alexandre Kantorow and Lucienne Renaudin-Vary. From 2021 to 2025, he was Music Director of the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, where he introduced new forms of programming and considerably broadened the orchestra’s repertoire, with a particular focus on female composers.

As a musician with a broad artistic palette, Pieter-Jelle de Boer unites multiple identities in his work: Whether orchestrating Duruflé’s Suite pour orgue, writing a new commission for Radio France, conducting a staged opera production with soloists, chorus, children’s choir and actors, or recording a solo piano album, he moves fluidly between roles and styles, always driven by curiosity, imagination, and a desire to explore music in its full expressive range.

In the 2025/26 season, he conducts The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček in a Dutch-language production for the Nederlandse Reisopera, touring ten cities across the Netherlands. He also presents the world premiere of his latest organ work at the Maison de Radio France, in a solo recital that includes several of his own transcriptions. Recent highlights include a tour of play-conduct Mozart concerts with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, film concerts at La Seine Musicale, and appearances with the Orchestre de Caen and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also conducted the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de Cannes.

His recordings have been widely acclaimed, including a recent album of Mozart Symphonies with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s violin concertos with Tianwa Yang and the SWR Sinfonieorchester, Janáček’s choral works with Accentus, and solo piano music by Mendelssohn and Rachmaninov.

Pieter-Jelle de Boer studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where he earned a Premier Prix in conducting, and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he obtained advanced degrees in both piano and organ. He is a laureate of the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in Trento, as well as the international organ competitions in Alkmaar and Freiberg.

His compositions include works such as Ciacona for solo piano and Danses concertantes for organ, brass, and percussion. His orchestrations and transcriptions reflect a deep engagement with sound, colour, and the act of reimagining repertoire for new contexts.