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Born in Paris, Benoît Fromanger studies the music and the flute in the CNR of Versailles and in the CNSM of Paris with eminent teachers such as Roger Bourdin, Alain Marion and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Soloist of the Paris Opera orchestra during ten years, then from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (dir: Lorin Maazel), going alongside to conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Guilini and Daniel Barenboim, Benoît Fromanger turns to good account these experiences and studies conducting with his mentor Valéry Gergiev but also with Rolf Reuter in Berlin. And so at the same time as his career of international soloist, he occurs as conductor in numerous festivals where he notably steers the National Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse, the Baroque Soloists of Munich, the Chamber Orchestra of Munich, The Chamber Orchestra of Prague, the Pablo Casals Festival Orchestra, the Camerata Galica etc ... Finally Fromanger conducted the Orchestra Ostinato of Paris, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bursa, the Dalian Philharmonic Orchestra (China), the Presidential Orchestra of Ankara and the Dokuz Eylül Symphony Orchestra (Deso Izmir). In 2009 he plans to conduct the Philharmonic of Peking, the Tsingtao Philharmonic Orchestra and several concert projects with the Berlin Chamber Players. Benoît Fromanger was named in 2004 as professor to the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, to the Royal Academy of The Hague (2006) and in 2007 as musical director to the Dailian Philharmonic Orchestra.