Hebe de Champeaux is a Dutch conductor, violinist, and mezzo-soprano residing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Hebe began playing the violin at the age of 4, and continued to study music, receiving a Bachelors of Music in violin performance (Cum Laude) from San Francisco State University, a Masters of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University Bloomington, and a Bachelors of Music in choral conducting from the Amsterdam Conservatory.  She studied orchestral direction under Imre Pallo, Thomas Baldner, Yair Samet, and choral direction under Jos Vermunt and Jos van Veldhoven.  She studied voice at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Hein Meens and Pierre Mak, and continued to take private voice lessons at the studio of James McCray in Den Haag.  She has also studied voice with Ira Siff and Capucine Chiaudani.  Hebe's most influential violin teacher was the late Jenny Rudin, who passed away in 2015.  Hebe also had incredibly valuable instruction in chamber music from the Alexander String Quartet and Federico Agostini.

At Indiana University, she was named Graduate Assistant Conductor for the IU Opera Theater season 2004-2005, assisting the productions of Tosca, Dialogues of the Carmelites, The Magic Flute, Cenerentola, and La Bohème.  She participated in conducting masterclasses around the globe with Kurt Masur, Jorma Panula, Boris Hinchev, and Colin Metters, and specialized workshops in early vocal music with Rebecca Stewart, Adrian van der Spoel and Gabriel Garrido.  She participated in conducting workshops at the Kurt Thomas Course in Utrecht, and a modern chamber music festival in Fresno with the Alexander String Quartet and Frederico Agostini.  In 2007, Hebe won the Jury's Prize at the Bela Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition, and in 2009 received recognition of honorable mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship for women conductors.  She worked as at the Edward Said Conservatory of Music from 2006-2007 as conductor of the orchestras and conductor of the Jerusalem Choir.

Currently, Hebe conducts the Audite Nova Chamber Choir, Leiden English Choir,  Decamerone Chamber Choir, and the Apeldoorns Symphonic Orchestra.  She has also guest conducted the Autunno Ensemble, the Leeuwarder Kamerkoor, and Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam, COV IJmuiden, and the Schütz Ensemble.  In 2008, she guest-conducted at the Romanian Opera House in Cluj for the 2008 production of Maria de Buenos Aires, after doing the same production in Bloomington, Indiana in 2006 with her own ensemble, ExArt.  Hebe conducted the St. Petersburg State Academic Orchestra during a masterclass and performance of Mahler’s Symphony #5, and the Bulgarian State Opera during a masterclass and performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.   

She organised the Tormis Choir Festival Amsterdam in November of 2010.  Hebe regularly gives concerts with her piano trio(s), trio Ad HOC and Trio WHO.   She has played violin in numerous orchestras and festivals including the Henri Mancini Institute, AIMS Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, Terre Haute Symphony, Carmel Symphony, Columbus Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony Orchestra, and the Choir of London Palestine Music Festival.   She studied violin and chamber music with the Alexander String Quartet at San Francisco State University.  Hebe has sung with Meesters and Gezellen under the direction of Kaspars Putniņš, and the ZED Chamber Choir under the direction of Elisabeth Blom, and she currently sings with Cappella Amsterdam and Studium Chorale.  She has performed as a soloist for various projects with her own ensembles, varying from repertoire by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Piazzolla, Vaughan-Williams, and Jenkins.  She sung as a soloist with the Prinses Irene Harmonieorkest and the Haarlems Gemengd Koor in a concert of Karl Jenkin's Armed Man.

Hebe is also pedagogically active and has given masterclasses in conducting at Bureau Huismuziek and the Muziekpakhuis in Amsterdam.  She has also given various vocal workshops the most creative place in the Netherlands; Buitenkunst.  She is passionate about helping form a new generation of classical music fans, and therefore set up a children's choir called Kinderkoor Zing Zang.