Stéphane Denève (born 24 November 1971) is a French conductor. He is currently music director of the Brussels Philharmonic and of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. 　　Denève was born in Tourcoing, France, and graduated from the Paris Conservatoire. Denève worked as conducting assistant to Sir Georg Solti with the Orchestre de Paris, Georges Prêtre at the Opéra National de Paris, and Seiji Ozawa at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in 1998.