A graduate of a master's degree in harp from the Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg and a master's degree in chamber music from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Jean-Baptiste Haye won second prize at the 2016 World Harp Competition (Utrecht, Netherlands).
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In 2015, he founded Le Quintette Le Bateau Ivre (flute, violin, viola, cello and harp). Unique in Europe, the group quickly distinguished itself by winning several international competitions such as Léopold Bellan (Paris, 2016), the Osaka International Music Competition (Japan, 2017) and Virtuoso&Belcanto Festival (Lucca, Italy, 2018).
In 2019, Le Bateau Ivre joined the ECMA European Chamber Music Programme. A recipient of the Meyer Foundation grant, the quintet released its first album, Marionnettes, in October 2022 under the CNSMDP's Initiale label. The Le Bateau Ivre Quintet received the silver medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in May 2023, making Jean-Baptiste Haye the first harpist to win such a prestigious award in the field of chamber music.
His career as a musician has led him to perform in concert halls such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra Bastille, the Auditorium de Radio France, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Konzertgebouw in Nijmegen, the Gasteig in Munich, the Kukje art Hall in Seoul and the Izumi Hall in Osaka, both as an orchestral musician and as a chamber musician.
Jean-Baptiste Haye is the regular principal harpist of the Opéra National de Lorraine, harp professor at the CRR of Grand Nancy and teaches harp and chamber music at Pôle Sup'93