About

Barbara Dragan most recently was named Young Associate Conductor at Orchestre National de France . She opened the position at ONF with a recording of new music by Mathieu Lamboley. She’s assisting Cristian Măcelaru, Daniele Gatti, François-Xavier Roth, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Trevor Pinnock among others.

In the summer 2022 she took part as conducting fellow in Cabrillo New Music Festival in Santa Cruz and Ravinia Festival in Chicago.

In the season 2021/22 she was named Conducting Fellow at the Dallas Opera Hart Institute.
Since April 2021 she has been studying Konzertexamen at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr.

Dragan is an award recipient of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship (TACF) and the prestigious German DAAD Fellowship. She took part in numerous finals of international conducting competitions such as the Princess Astrid Conducting Competition in Trondheim, the Svetlanov Conducting Competition in Monaco, or German Conductors’ Award in Cologne.

She is a graduate of the Universität der Künste in Berlin and the Frédéric Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She was born into a Polish family of scientists. She started playing the violin at the age of five. Whilst studying the violin and the oboe, she passed her final exams in advanced mathematics and physics.

She conducted several professional orchestras such as Orchestre National de France, NOSPR Katowice, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln,  Bochumer Symphoniker, Magdeburgische Philharmonie, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Festival Orchestra Wien, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Beethoven’s Academy Orchestra, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Zagreb Chamber Orchestra and Symphoniker Hamburg.

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Event list

  • Tue
    30
    Mar
    2021

    Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances

    Hamburg, HfMT Hochschulorchester

  • Thu
    01
    Apr
    2021

    Mozart – A-dur Violin Concerto

    Hamburg, Hamburger Symphoniker

  • Wed
    05
    May
    2021

    Dvorak – Cello Concerto

    Hamburg, Hochschulorchester, cello: Jaromir Kostka

  • Thu
    20
    May
    2021

    Mozart – Gran Partita

    Hamburg, Hamburger Symhoniker

  • Wed
    26
    May
    2021
    Thu
    27
    May
    2021

    Strauss - Rosekavalier

    Hamburg, HfMT

  • Tue
    08
    Jun
    2021

    Dvorak – 9. Symphony

    Frankfurt, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt

  • Wed
    16
    Jun
    2021

    Loewe - My Fair lady

    Hamburg, HfMT

  • Sat
    19
    Jun
    2021
    Sun
    27
    Jun
    2021

    Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra on Tour

    Hamburg, Berlin, Bochum
    Elisabeth Leonskaja piano, Steven Sloane direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor

  • Tue
    22
    Jun
    2021

    Mahler 5 – Kammerfassung

    Hamburg, HfMT

  • Mon
    18
    Oct
    2021
    Sat
    23
    Oct
    2021

    Deutscher Dirigentenpreis

    Schönberg - Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene op. 34; Webern – 6 Pieces for Orchestr; Rihm – Jakob Lenz; Mozart – Jupiter Symphony

    Köln, Gürzenich Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra

  • Mon
    08
    Nov
    2021
    Fri
    12
    Nov
    2021

    Dallas Opera Hart Institute

    Gounod - Faust overture, Rossini, Purcell, Beethoven, Mazzoli: arias

    The Dallas Opera Ochestra

  • Thu
    18
    Nov
    2021
    Sun
    21
    Nov
    2021

    Campus Dirigieren I

    Ligeti - Kammerkonzert,  Goldmann – Linie / Splitter, Stravinsky – Firebird Suite 1919, Bartok – Tanz Suite

    HfMD Frankfur

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