
CHLOÉ
DUFRESNE
CONDUCTOR - CHEFFE D'ORCHESTRE
NEWS !!
Chloé Dufresne nommée Aux Victoires de la Musique dans la catégorie "Révélation chef d'orchestre"
French-born conductor Chloé Dufresne recently won the Orchestra prize, the Audience prize and a "special mention" exæquo with al the finilist from the Besançon International Competition for young conductors 2021. She is also the 3rd prize winner of the Malko conducting competition 2021 and finalist of the Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition 2020. She was also Laureate of the Tremplin des jeunes cheffes organised by La Philharmonie de Paris in 2018.
She graduated as a Master from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Chloé Dufresne initially studied viola, vocal performance and choral conducting. From 2015 to 2020 she has studied orchestra conducting with Maestri Atso Almila and Sakari Oramo at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In 2018-2019 she was an exchange student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, learning under the guidance of Alain Altinoglu.


Chloé has participated in masterclasses with renowned conductors such as Paavo Jarvi,
Mikko Franck, Johannes Schlaefli, David Zinman, Susanna Mälkki, Hannu Lintu.
She has been fortunate to conduct first-class orchestras such as the
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki City Orchestra,
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic,
Sinfonia Lahti, Ensemble Intercontemporain.
Her professional projects led Chloe Dufresne to assist Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo at the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Kokkola Opera. She is also invited for several symphonic concerts with Opéra de Rouen, Opéra national de Lorraine, Orchestre national d’Auvergne, Opéra de Vichy and Philharmonie de Paris where she made her debut with the Orchestre Pasdeloup in 2020.
Reccently she made her debut with Orchestre national de France with whom she also recorded the Marseillaise for the handover ceremony of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2021-Paris 2024.
When it comes to opera repertoire, Chloé was invited to conduct Bayreuth production of Wagner's Ring for children in Helsinki festival (August 2019), Bellini’s Norma in ‘Narva Opera Days’ (2019), Offenbach's Pomme d'Api in Opéra de Toulon (November 2019). She assisted Sakari Oramo for Meyerbeer’s Etoile du Nord in Kokkola Opera, and Jérome
Pillement for Donizetti's La fille du régiment in Opéra de Montpellier.
Among her future projects, Chloé Dufresne conducts Offenbach's Le Voyage dans la lune at Opéra de Nice and Opéra de Limoges ; she will return to conduct Opéra de Rouen’s orchestra ; she is invited to conduct, Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France, Orchestre national de Montpellier Occitanie. In Finland she will conduct Vaasa City orchestra and Pori Sinfonietta.


JULY 29th - AUGUST 11th 2021
Teachers : Jaap van Zweden, Johannes Schlaefli

AUGUST 21st - SEPTEMBER 12th 2021
Concerts :
21/08 Paris - festival Classique au vert
26/08 Bagnol de l’Orne, 04/09 Brione, 05/09 Beuzeuville, 10/09 Envermeu, 11/09 Bois Guillaume, 12/09 Condé sur Vire
Mendelssohn, Bruch, Smyth
Violin : Marina Chiche

OCTOBER 1st 2021
Grieg, Pärt, Bach, Wiren
Viola : Baptiste Vay

OCTOBER 22nd, 23rd 2021
“Petit guide illustré de la musique”
Monteverdi, Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaïkovski, Wagner, Debussy, Penderecki, Bernstein, Prokofiev
Le Petit Guide illustré de la GRANDE musique | Maison de la Radio

OCTOBER 30th, 31st 2021

NOVEMBER 26th 2021
Roussel, Jolivet, Saint Saëns
Flutist : Niamh McKenna

DECEMBER 19th 2021
Kirkkonumi kamariorkesteri
Sibelius Violin concerto, Prokofiev Symphony no.7

JANUARY 13th,14th,15th,16th 2022
CHERCHE ET TROUVE
Illustrations live : Chloé Perarnau
Composition musicale et textes : Rachel Leach
Narratrice : Sarah Le Picard
Cherche et trouve | Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier (opera-orchestre-montpellier.fr)

FEBRUARY 13th,15th,17th 2022
LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE - OFFENBACH
Mise en scène : Olivier Fredj
Sheva Tehoval, Chloé Chaume, Violette Polchi, Marie Lenormand, Matthieu Lecroart, Kaelig Bochet, Eric Vignau, Thibaut Despantes, Christophe Poncet de Solange
Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice
Chœur de l’Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur
Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur - Le Voyage dans la Lune (opera-nice.org)

FEBRUARY 20th 2022
CONCERT DE CARNAVAL
Prokofiev : Pierre et le loup
Saint-Saens : Le carnaval des animaux
Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice
Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur - Concerts de Carnaval (opera-nice.org)

MARCH 9th, 11th, 13th 2022
LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE - OFFENBACH
Mise en scène : Olivier Fredj
Orchestre de l'opéra de Limoges
Chœur de l’Opéra de Limoges

MARCH 20th 2022
LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE - OFFENBACH
Opéra de Vichy
Mise en scène : Olivier Fredj
Orchestre de l'opéra de Limoges
Chœur de l’Opéra de Limoges

MARCH 27th 2022
LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE - OFFENBACH
Opéra de Clermont Auvergne
Mise en scène : Olivier Fredj
Orchestre de l'opéra de Limoges
Chœur de l’Opéra de Limoges

MARCH 31th 2022
Pori Sinfonietta
Lili Boulanger : D'un matin de Printemps (arr. Camille Pepin)
F. Mendelssohn : Concerto for Violin in d minor
C. Gounod : Symphony no.1

APRIL 3rd 2022
LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE - OFFENBACH
Théätre Impérial de Compiègne
Mise en scène : Olivier Fredj
Orchestre de l'opéra de Limoges
Chœur de l’Opéra de Limoges

APRIL 14th - MAY 18th 2022

JUNE 3rd 2022
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY - DVORAK
Salle des Concerts - Cité de la musique

JUNE 4th 2022
OLYMPE LA REBELLE - ABOULKER
Philharmonie de Paris
Orchestre national d'Île-de-France - ONDIF - Saison 21.22 - Olympe la Rebelle (orchestre-ile.com)

JULY 7th 2022
LES ESTIVALES DE MUSIQUE EN MEDOC
Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine
2021-2022
Médias
Olympic Games - Handover Ceremony
Tokyo 2021 to Paris 2024 - Orchestre National de France
Besançon International Conducting Competition for Young conducdor 2021
Camille Pépin : Aux confins de l'Orage (world premiere)
Sibelius : Symphony n.5
Orchestre National de Lyon
Malko Competition for Young conducdor 2021
Tchaikovsky : 4th symphony 1st mov.
C. Nielsen : Maskarade Overture
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra 12.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Debussy: Apres midi d’un faune
Britta Byström: New commission for the Malko Competition
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra 10.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Sibelius: Violin Concerto - 1st mov
Soloist: Johannes Søe Hansen
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
10.06.2021
DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra 9.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 1. mov.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
7.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
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Mendelssohn : Symphony no.3 "Scottish"
Sibelius Academy Orchestra
31.10.2020
In Helsinki Music Center
Tchaikovsky : Romeo and juliet - Overture Fantasy
Orchestre Pasdeloup
11.01.2020
In Philharmonie de Paris
Camille Pépin : Vajrayana
extraits mvt 4-5
Orchestre de Picardie
23.11.2018
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