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

  • Thu
    19
    Jan
    2023

    Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie

    Orchestre National de France

    Cédric Tiberghien piano; Cynthia Millar ondes Martenot; Cristian Măcelaru direction; Barbara Dragan cover conductor

  • Thu
    26
    Jan
    2023

    Schumann 1. and 3. Symphony

    Orchestre National de France

    Daniele Gatti direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor

  • Wed
    01
    Feb
    2023

    Schumann 2. and 4. Symphony

    Orchestre National de France

    Daniele Gatti direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor

  • Sat
    11
    Feb
    2023

    Festival Présences

    Orchestre National de France

    FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor

  • Wed
    22
    Feb
    2023

    Mendelssohn - 3. Symphony

    Hamburger Symphoniker, Hamburg

  • Thu
    23
    Mar
    2023

    Bartok- Le Prince de bois; Brahms - 1. Piano Concerto

    Orchestre National de France

    Daniil Trifonov piano, Cristian Măcelaru direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor

  • Thu
    20
    Apr
    2023

    Haydn, La Création

    Orchestre National de France

    Matthias Goerne bariton, Andrés Orozco-Estrada direction,
    Barbara Dragan cover conductor

  • Sun
    11
    Jun
    2023

    Viva l'Orchestra!

    Orchestre des Grands Amateurs de Radio France

    Orchestre National de France

    BARBARA DRAGAN direction

  • Thu
    15
    Jun
    2023

    Schubert - Symphony No. 5, Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme" , Haydn - Symphony No. 103 "Roulement de timbale"

    Orchestre National de France

    Maria-João Pires piano, Trevor Pinnock direction, Barbara Dragan cover conductor

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