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
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Mon31Jan2022Thu03Feb2022
Campus Dirigieren 2
Perotti – Sights of light – prapremiere; Strauss – Till Eulenspiegel
HfMT Köln
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Wed23Feb2022
Family Concert
Beethoven – 5. Symphony, Britten – Young Person’s Guide
NOSPR Katowice
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Thu21Apr2022
Rachmaninov – 2. Piano Concerto
Hamburger Symphoniker, Hamburg
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Wed04May2022
Mozart – Cosi fan Tutte
HfMT Hamburg, Steiner Haus
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Thu02Jun2022Sun05Jun2022
Svetlanov Competition in Monaco
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
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Fri08Jul2022
Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
HfMT Hamburg
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Sat23Jul2022Wed27Jul2022
Cabrillo Festival
Wenbin Lyu „Germination” – prapremiere
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Thu28Jul2022Mon01Aug2022
Ravinia Festival Chicago
"Breaking Barriers"
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Mon15Aug2022Thu18Aug2022
Princess Astrid Competition in Trondheim
Trondheim Symfoniorkester
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Thu15Sep2022
Ravel La Valse, Poulenc Gloria
Orchestre National de France
Cover Conductor for Cristian Macelaru
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Tue20Sep2022Thu22Sep2022
Mathieu Lamobley „Lena et l’Orchestre enchante” – prapremiere/recording
Orchestre National de France
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Thu13Oct2022
Symphony Nova Scotia
Clyne - Dance, Beethoven - 5 Symphony, Wijeratne -Polyphonic Lively
Inbal Segev cello, Holly Mathieson direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor
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Thu17Nov2022Philharmonie de Paris
Kodaly – Dances of Galanta; Bartok – Concerto for orchestra; Mozart – Violin concerto No 5
Orchestre National de France
Maxim Vengerov violin, Cristian Măcelaru direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor
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Thu24Nov2022
Ravel - Ma Mère l'Oye, Scriabine - Piano concerto, Franck- Symphony
Orchestre National de France
Daniil Trifonov piano, Cristian Măcelaru direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor
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Thu24Nov2022
Ravel - Bolero and La Valse
HSO Hamburg
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Sat26Nov2022Thu08Dec2022
Orchestre National de France on Tour
Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna
Taniil Trifonov piano, Xavier de Maistre harp
Cristian Măcelaru direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor
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Sun18Dec2022
Ligeti - Hamburgisches Konzert
HfMT Hamburg, Szabolcs Zempléni horn
Contact
- brbrdrgn@gmail.com
- @barbara_dragan