Surel entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of fifteen and studied in Sylvie Gazeau's and Christian Ivaldi's classes.
He later played in various symphony orchestras as concertmaster, then as a tenured member of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France from 2000 to 2003.
[2] He collaborates with artists such as Roland Pidoux, Henri Demarquette, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Michel Moraguès,[2] the Trio Wanderer, the musicians of the Ébène Quartet, Claire Désert, Paul Radais and Aurélien Sabouret.
[3][1] His repertoire includes the complete concertos of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Sibelius, Barber and Chausson's Poème.
[1] He plays in various musical styles with artists such as Juanjo Mosalini, Tomás Gubitch,[4] Jean-Philippe Viret,[5] Vincent Ségal and Richard Galliano with whom he has given more than 500 concerts worldwide.